"The general, Padre. He had the only gun."
Brulieres sighed. "Then that is why he is dead. The creature would not
have harmed him."
Craig had the same idea. It had used the weapon more as if in bluff,
and had apparently carefully gone beyond the mountain to die. He
wondered if the two bullet-holes had killed it.
But how many more of the creatures (or machines) waited in the tunnels?