- Bacha! - plaintive shouted one of the soldiers who are relatives of Martin called anayami. - Harob!
He tried not to breathe. The evil dark warriors were very close and the children saw them. They were dressed in dirty linen trousers, soft short boots, and leather jackets with steel plates sewn on them. Both had curved scimitars.
Anarie was slowly approaching the rock, under which hid the children on the move looking around. - Bacha! again and again one of the warriors called, coming closer.
Martan saw the big black eyes of his sister gazing in amazement now at his brother, now at the strange warriors, and continued to press his right hand firmly to her lips. He put his left arm around her and pulled her to him.
Suddenly the view before the eyes of the children with a Bang closed two huge hairy paws. The unknown beast, covered with black fur, jumped off the boulder and fell to the ground, vzmahnuv clouds of dust, right in front of yaremi. They froze in surprise.
The beast roared and turned out to be a huge shaggy bear. His roar echoed over the surrounding rocks. He stood free on his hind legs, and his belly, chest and shoulders were covered with black steel armor. The bear was as tall as the horses on which the anarii had ridden, but the horses, seeing the terrible beast, whinnied in alarm and galloped off.
The bear breathed noisily from his chest, which blew out of his nostrils in clouds of steam, and the next moment waved his long legs, at the ends of which gleamed black curved claws. The anarii screamed wildly in pain as the claws dug into their bellies and the bear lifted them snarling into the air.
The powerful beast threw out its paws with force, and the screaming warriors flew a good dozen paces and crashed into a large boulder with a grating sound. The bodies of the enemy slid down it and lay still on the ground. Then the beast turned to the rock under which the children were hiding and stepped closer to them.
The bear's small black eyes were staring into the crevice where his brother and sister crouched, its nostrils sniffing the air. Then he snorted, leaned close to the crevice, and thrust his right paw into it. The bear hooked a claw over the edge of his shirt and pulled Anhra out as easily as if he had caught a fish on a hook.
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