Vydys screamed in the same instant. For the fraction of a second green flame seemed to envelope her. A great black char-scar spread across her naked belly.
She tottered. Her guards lunged forward.
But already Zenaor was leaping into the laboratory chamber. Headlong, he dived for the transparent cubicle in the center and wrenched its hatch open.
Like a wave of slime, the ourobos belched forth, spilling across the floor in a hideous, writhing blot.
The foremost of Vydys' charging guards screamed and tried to stop.
Too late. He pitched into the fungous tide; screamed just once more.
A bubbling scream....
The room erupted into chaos. Alike, Vydys' men and Zenaor's fled in shrieking panic.
Craig thrust a foot across one's path; snatched a fire-gun as the man fell sprawling.