But in the last fractional bit of the second in which the wolf-dog's jaws closed, Miki was transformed into a thing of living lightning.

No man had ever seen a movement swifter than that with which he turned on Taao.

Their jaws clashed.

There was a sickening grinding of bone, and in another moment they were rolling and twisting together on the earth floor.

Neither Grouse Piet nor Durant could see what was happening.