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"What happened?" Kendra said, looking around. "There were hundreds of colonists. Hundreds! They couldn’t have all just disappeared."
Maletis replied, “Gtarn. Gtarn were here. Tracks everywhere. See?"
Kendra looked at the ground. There were a lot of tracks, of many different sizes and shapes. But all of tracks ended with the same seven-toed design, similar to the monster that had attacked her months ago, when Maletis had come to her rescue.
Some of the tracks left were huge, the size of the creature that had attacked her, or even larger. But many were not much larger than those of a man, or at least a large man, a Slintrasti. The latter ones also didn’t appear to be traveling on four feet, but only two. Maletis appeared to guess her question.
"Gtarn come in many size," he said. "You will see them, soon. They preparing for war for long time. Gtarn you see before, just scout. You see more. You see those that think, that plan."