I HEARD LOI SCREAM A name. Tumbling through the air again, I twisted and glimpsed Broen racing outside, a pick raised high above his head.

'Get inside!' Sian and Kassie screamed at the same time.

But it was too late.

The instant the creatures sighted him, they spun together en-mass and dived. I heard a sickening, ripping sound before the monsters launched themselves back at me and the others. The glimpse of limbs and a dark head, lying separate, hit hard; I ...