“Hearken,” he said. “If the Boar and the Dogs and the Unicorn will come over to me and put themselves in my mercy, their lives shall be spared. The Boar shall go to a cage in the Tisroc‘s garden, the Dogs to the Tisroc’s kennels, and the Unicorn, when I have sawn his horn off, shall draw a cart. But the Eagle, the children, and he who was the King shall be offered to Tash this night.”
The only answer was growls.
“Get on, warriors,” said the Tarkaan. “Kill the beasts, but take the two.legged ones alive.”