"Monsters do not take a mine and hold it," Moses said. "That is the part of this I like least."
Trafalgar turned his head a fraction. "Go on."
"An outbreak is a migration. That is all it has ever been." The captain spoke the way a man speaks about weather he has lived through more times than he cares to count. "Beasts come up out of wherever they were bred, they flood a valley, they gorge themselves on whatever is soft enough to swallow, and within a season they scatter or starve or move along to the next valley. That is the pattern. Every man who has ever pushed one back will tell you the same."
"And these have held their ground for over a month."
