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IT WAS the end of the battle. But whether or not it was his own finish also, Kwa had a slipping moment of doubt. The reflex of the doubt stopped him, gave his straining arm a twist of sharp withdrawal.
There had come a difference in the mass ahead of him. It was a scattering. It had been like the explosion of a tawny bomb, with a crunching explosion of sound--not very loud--but charged with a power that meant an end of existing things--of things that just now were but forever afterward were not.