Hi, I have a question (txt comprehension); Explain what the narrator means at line 26 “The whole world grew still”:
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One man was swiftly lashing cords around her,
around her limbs, her throat, body, head, bundling her over and over on the wet
ground. She was helpless, exactly like a fly being trussed by a spider. Poor hurt Pan
was dragging himself toward her, with the fox daemon worrying his back, and he had
no strength left to change, even. The whole world grew still as the man tying the net
saw it too. Pan sat up and blinked, and then there was a soft thud, and the net man
fell choking and gasping right across Lyra, who cried out in horror: that was blood
gushing out of him! Running feet, and someone hauled the man away and bent over
him; then other hands lifted Lyra, a knife snicked and pulled and the net strings fell
away one by one, and she tore them off, spitting, and hurled herself down to cuddle
Pan. Kneeling, she twisted to look up at the newcomers