"And now she, the matriarch, the mother of the Anthropophagi, with her one remaining eye spied me standing beside her precious progeny, whom her instincts demanded she defend, as the doctor said, to her last breath with ruthless ferocity. Her own pain did not matter. What animated her was as old as life itself, the same irresistible force that the doctor had marveled at in the pastor's parlor : How strong is the maternal instinct, Will Henry!
That overriding compulsion now drove her toward the spot where I cowered, frozen in fear' s icy grip, wavering in insensitive agony, for even in her injured state she moved with frightening speed and would catch me should I make a run for the passageway - which may or may not still have been open."
I believe this part of the book would "hook" in the readers because it has suspense and leads the reader to question what Will Henry will do to survive the mother of the Anthropophagi. But that may also not be the case because unknowing what's going to happen, for all they may think, she could not attack him at all. That's why I believe this is a good passage to hook in the readers.
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