Ethlek warriors took initiative. When their Leader and his Mentee went one way with one angel, and their mortal enemy went another way with two more, Ethlek followed the two more. They even thought to bring Trals his snatcher.

He scratched Srav's head, surveying the warriors arrayed around the fort with its Ethlek slaves. Its triceratops. Its stores of food and bronze weapons. And the enormous steaming breach in its defenses.

Trals laughed aloud when he saw the hole his ...