“...The gravity plane hovered over a clearing completely overgrown with giant ferns. Slowly descended in its southwestern corner, where among the broken, trampled into the ground and blood-splattered leaves and gnawed bones sat three ugly creatures - half-humans, half-beasts, who had once lived only in the wild imagination of myth-makers. The largest one held in his hands the head of a little elf, separated from the torso, and looked at her thoughtfully, as if trying to remember something...”