He had seen something that he would never forget--even as he would never quite forget his mother and Kazan and the old windfall.

He had witnessed the death of the creature he had thought all-powerful.
Wakayoo, the big bear, had not even put up a fight.

Pierrot and Nepeese had killed him WITHOUT TOUCHING HIM.

Now Pierrot was cutting him with a knife which shot silvery flashes in the sun; and Wakayoo made no movement.

It made Baree shiver, and he drew himself an inch farther back under the rock, where he was already wedged as if he had been shoved there by a strong hand.
He could see Nepeese.