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- He raised his watering eyes just in time to see that he was headed for the alien craft at high speed and that he wasn't going to clear it. He was going to hit it dead center.
- "Miriam,"-
- It was his last thought before the world turned to fire.
- Dachande saw the ooman fly at the ship and he ran faster. Most of the students were clear, but at that speed, an impact could cause damage, big damage. The tiny flier smashed into the ship and blew apart in a fireball that shattered both craft. A second later came another blast, bigger than the first. Flame and debris sprayed, scorched rocks, moved boulders, knocked over delicate formations that had stood undisturbed for millions of years. Huge chunks of burning ship flew through the gully as the hunters were blown to the ground by the blast.
- After a moment Tichinde stood and looked around at his fallen peers. He waited to hear direction from the Leader, but there were no instructive cries. Other yautja rose to their feet, dazed. Small pools of mi burned, their flickerings reaching into the dusk, carrying in their fumes the smells of ash and soil and oily death.
- The Leader had fallen not far from Tichinde. Several of the others stumbled with him to where Dachande lay. The Leader was barely alive, his mandibles caked with thwei. Wreckage had hit him, knocked him into dhi'ki-de, the sleep near death.
- A quick survey showed them that Warkha, too, was dead, and the other Blooded had been on the ship that still burned and smoked and looked now like nothing so much as a gutted crab. No one would be leaving this world on that vessel. And it would be weeks, months, years perhaps, before anybody came to look for them. Not good.-pg.75-76 chpt.9
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