The assembled company troop through the shattered great hall into the
courtyard.  As they pass through Jorg sees the scene of destruction
for the first time, and in the courtyard they see the fallen bodies of
some of his former comrades-in-arms.

Verthes takes his arm.  "I was a great shock to me also".  He tries to
avert his eyes from Jorg's blade, still encrusted with blood.

"Well, I don't think our beast is going to be in the courtyard",
announces Kylar the legionnaire, "How do we propose searching for the
thing?  As I see it, we just go blundering about in the undergrowth
until someone happens upon it.  Anyone got a better plan?".

--
Tim Hall, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/timjh

"The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future.  Have 
 you seen it?  It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly 
 bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department"