A ghoul ran into the middle of it.
It had come down the near bank and gone for the wagon, and its route took it inside four metres of the manticore's hindquarters, and it did not even slow down.
The manticore killed it without turning its head.
The paw came back and took the ghoul across the spine and put it into the gravel, and the manticore did not look at what it had done and went straight back to trying to get around Finn.
James stopped moving for about a second.
*They're not together.*
He had been treating the riverbed as two groups of enemies with one plan. It was not. It was two predators that had both come to the same caravan for the same reason.
He tested it once, because he was not going to build anything on one dead ghoul.
