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By now a smart animal would turn tail to escape before its wounds became dire. Perhaps that was impossible now for the cougar; given that in the next moment Glaukos had it by one end and Kallik the other, keeping it off-balance with its limbs akimbo.

As the cat lost balance it hit the dirt and Kallik went inward to the soft belly, but Glaukos kept hold of the wrist and began to thrash his head and shoulders back and forth. He felt the wrist snap and then the shoulder pop out of its socket.

The cat was running out of time -- and limbs, apparently.