AtD translation: Now and then he creaked around in the saddle

[Jochen Stremmel]

Turning around in the saddle, making that noise with our ass on fairly new
leather, I would say.

2018-06-01 6:39 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> P214.19-24   Each explosion was like the text of another sermon, preached
> in the voice of the thunder by some faceless but unrelenting desert
> prophesier who was coming more and more to ride herd on his thoughts. Now
> and then he creaked around in the saddle, as if seeking agreement or
> clarification from Webb’s blank eyes or the rictus of what would soon be a
> skull’s mouth.
>
> What does "creaked around" mean here? Is it just moving around with a
> creaking noise, or something else entirely?
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