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After they both almost die, John and Aeryn fight about frelling, fight about flying, fight about feelings, and probably fight about fighting. [Post-The Flax]
When she started his mouth was hot. Damp and feverish, slightly sour from the meal they'd shared before this ill-fated training run. It felt awkward, intimate, to empty her lungs, his chest barely moving, resistant. Now her hands, one over the other, shoving down over his heart. “Dun, dun, dun,” her mind echoed, English prattle, in a distinct rhythm. “Another bites the dust.” There hadn’t been time to make Crichton explain the ridiculous idiom, only to fix the nonsense in her memory. Fifteen presses, then inhale and breathe again twice.
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- Part 12 of Unfamiliar Idioms