The rover hovered over soldiers moving back to their camp. Moving forward, David grinned as hundreds of small furred arms waved above the canopy of the trees. Arriving at the edge of the desert, what he saw from the stationery vessel stunned him. Their heads lowered, the rhosynhorns plowed through the camels, pulling their long vicious horns through the bellies of the camels. The carnage was unbelievable. Ssh’fa jumped or were thrown from camels and ran back into the desert or toward the forest. He saw one rhosynhorn shaking a flailing Ssh’fa speared on his horn.
David turned the rover to watch surviving Ssh’fa trying to enter the forest. Arrows shot from above killed hundreds before they reached their goal. Some disappeared into the darkness of the trees. Sickened by the carnage, David turned eastward to see how that section fared.