"Yes," said Saul, and shivered. "Yes...."
"Did he speak to you?"
"He started to. But—we ran."
And Saul suddenly cried, out of the depths of fear this time and not of hate, "We can never kill him. It's his valley. And oh God, we're trapped in here with him, we can't get out."
"We can get out," said Trevor.
VII
Saul stared at him sickly. "There's no way over the mountains. There isn't even air up there."
"There's a way. I found it in the ship."
Trevor stood up, speaking with a sudden harshness. "Not a way for us all, not now, but if three or four of us go, one may live to make it. And he could bring back men with ships for the others."