`` i sha n't , either , '' iskierka said , raising her head bristling , but after some squabbling the matter was settled by lot : granby drew a line in the sand and temeraire dropped onto it a handful of pebbles-pebbles by his standards ; each of them a boulder dredged from the ocean floor and roughly the size of a man 's head-and then the results counted off : there were two more on iskierka 's side of the line than on temeraire 's .