"I'd not do that," Dubhain said, squatting nearby, his eyes aglow and wicked.

Heads reached the surface and poked out, wide eyes looking past Drule at the creature still squatting nearby.

A pair of ogres squatted nearby, though, two of four that had come south with her force.

Yilskene asked Mosrene, who squatted nearby, watching the image of the shuttle on the viewscreen.

"Looks like clearing," he said to Jocelyn, who squatted nearby.

There is one of the captain on the bridge surveying the ocean through a telescope as his pet squats nearby.

Pike squatted against the wall nearby, no thoughts in his mind now but roaring fatigue and the effort to fight it.

Adelin and a dozen or so Maidens squatted nearby, watching, waiting to guard his sleep.

Shiva, his recently acquired companion, was squatting nearby on the riverbank and watching.

One man patted the woman on her shoulder and sat on the stool, while the other man squatted nearby.