"Tyr!" screamed Katha.
Space Commander Mason shuddered and put a trembling hand across his eyes. He looked smaller, frail in his dark cloak, standing before the giant who was coming toward him. His officers fell away from him as Tyr came on. To one side a girl with an emerald necklace dropped and lay in a huddled heap on the ground.
From the throats of the manacled Tryllans a roar went up.
"Our god has come for vengeance!"
"Yield, you ardth! Yield to Tyr!"
"See how he shines in his glory!"
Twenty feet from Mason, Tyr came to a stop, for fear that the heat his body emanated would blast the man.
"Free Katha and Zarman and the others," the yellow giant said.
Mason nodded.
"Stay away from me," he warned Katha, seeing her leaping from the dais of the gallows. "I am still overcharged with energy. It will fade in a little while. Wait."