“All right then. Yes,” he admitted. “I didn’t much like having to dispatch that jaguar, even if it was bent upon destroying me. It is one thing to slay an animal at a distance. One doesn’t feel a part of it. This was entirely too personal for me. I haven’t killed anything since. And I doubt I could, not something healthy and vital with a life yet to live.” I thought of the tremble of those damp wings against my palm and I understood him perfectly.
