Barely in time, Craig leaped out of the way. Desperately, he ran through the trench in search of some exit, some chance for escape.
There was none.
Again the djevoda charged.
Once more Craig side-stepped in the nick of time.
Above him, on the pit's rim, Vydys laughed her silvery, sadistic laugh.
Hate surged through the Earthman ... hate mingled with fear.
Was he to die here—tusked high into the air; trampled under the great hammer-feet?
If at least the hell-bitch above only could die with him—!
He fell back to the moat's far edge ... but not at the djevoda. No. Higher, this time. Higher—and straight at Vydys!