He fought to free an arm. If he could get loose he’d have to hack his way free of the creature’s coils. It was a risk, because once penetrated the skin of a sacred eel released deadly toxins. If the toxins rendered him comatose he’d fall through the ice and drown. At the moment, his heels couldn’t get a grip on the slippery surface and he was being pulled inexorably towards the hole. The eels didn’t normally reach the size of this one and they hated light. They were usually confined to the forest bogs but how this one came to be in the lake didn’t take much working out. He wondered what other traps Finn had set for him whilst he strained to reach the axe in his belt. Something roared past his head and exploded against one of the eel’s coils. It reared and relaxed its grip. Flicked aside, Kavan slithered at speed across the lake on his back. Some hero, he thought when he slammed hard against a pair of trooper’s boots. At this rate Tiana would never be rescued. Torma grinned down at him and extended a helping hand.
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