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Updated: May 22, 2025
They squatted close to the floor, and the staring eyes examined the spears at close range. Then the owner of the eyes apparently sent out another command; for one of the guards at the door left its post and drew near, scissor-mandibles opened in obedience. The hard mandible's clashed over one of the steel bars. The jaws crunched shut, with a nerve-rasping grind.
Another fifty, and they would be caught! But now, just as their eyes sharpened also by the danger they were in began to grow accustomed to the gloom, they saw ahead of them a thing that might have stepped straight out of a horrible dream. Six feet of vulnerable, unarmored body, amply protected by horny head and shoulders and ten feet of awful, scissor-mandibles, faced them.
It was good, the feel of that smooth steel. He balanced the ponderous weapon lightly. An ineffective thing against the plates of living armor covering the scissor-mandibles. But it was not against them at least not directly that he was planning to use it now! Once more he darted toward the living cisterns. The soldiers followed close behind.
First, more of the horrors with the enormous scissor-mandibles began to stream past them. In twos and threes, then in whole squads, they lumbered by, bound for the ant army that had invaded their sanctum. Not quite too far ahead to be out of sight, the defenders halted. Several of their number went forward to help the dying Horatius.
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