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‘Not my choice! Do not blame me, woman! Do you hear? Do not!’

Then his eyes widened and he dragged her down on to the cobbles, covered her with his own body

As two behemoths collided not three paces distant

A white Hound

And a bear, a god, a beast forgotten in the passing of the world

It had arrived a moment after the Hound, and itsthe Hound into the air-and clear of Samar Dev and Dasse’s front wall

Rubble crashed down, tu Dassem’s broad hack as he pulled hi facade Soht in a frenzy

Leaving, noo Hounds of Light, unopposed, and they reached the corpse of Anoed upward The second beast circled, as if conteed in the Tiste Andii’s skull was pitching about as the first aniht to carry away its prize, and wise caution kept it back

The Seguleh threw his lance from fifteen paces away The weapon sank into the side of the circling Hound, knocking it down-to be up again in an instant, snarling and snapping at the jutting shaft

Karsa, whose longer strides had sent him ahead of the Second, voiced a Teblor battle cry-an ancient one, heard only when the elders spun their tales of ancient heroes-and the Hound gripping Rake’s corpse flinched at the sound

Releasing its hold on that torn, gashed leg, it lunged towards the attacking Toblakai

Two javelins struck the ani its attention, and the Hound’s head pitched round to confront the new at-tackers

Two young Teblor women stood on the other side of the avenue, each cal another javelin in her atlatl Between therowl so low itup from the earth below

The Hound hesitated

Karsa charged towards it, blade whistling through the air-

The beast broke and ran-and the Toblakai’s sword sliced off its stubby tail and nothing else

The Hound howled