Growls were heard all about them, and birds screamed and fluttered around. One huge bird flew past their line of sight, soaring silently, then with a loud screech, quickly rose into the clouded tree tops.
"What a damned place this is!" Boyce stressed. "It is so ungodly."
"It may be but it's the legacy given to the world by the ancient men!"
Their attention was diverted when they heard a gagging roar and grunt. With it there was a loud shriek, like a scream, and they looked at each other with puzzled and surprised eyes.
"That did not sound like a scream that a bird would make!" Boyce suggested as he got on his knees, drawing his weapon and trying to follow the unusual sound.
It came again and was getting nearer and more frequent.
The, there it was. To their utter dismay, there was a woman running out of the thicket of brush some twenty meters away.
She constantly turned to look behind her. The bushes waved and buckled as if a herd of elephants were breaking through in the same direction that the woman was running.
Lloyd hollered out to her, calling her to run towards the cliff where they sat, and then they saw what was running after her. It was a wild pig the size of a horse.
It advanced more quickly on the woman, now that she was in the open.