Sting, loping along next to him, looked like some agile little two-legged beast, the top of his head barely reaching to Crown's hip.

To be sure the dark-haired woman was a lovely specimen, a fine example of the lovely two-legged beasts in the herd.

To them I was only a kind of she-kaiila, a two-legged beast of burden.

If bobcats and rattlers were anywhere around, they couldn't possibly be worse than the two-legged beasts behind me.

Once the tread marks were accompanied by what appeared to be enormous footprints, as if some unimaginable two-legged beast had been following the vehicles.

And if not, I'll find a whip that works as well on two-legged beasts as any other.

There were many places where the two-legged beasts could go to earth once darkness had fallen, and finding them again in the morning might not be easy.

Two more humans come round, "great warm two-legged beasts" - to take her back to the garden.

And then come the two-legged beasts to fight over it, tearing one another to shreds or killing for it.

What did she feel about the two-legged beasts who at first tried to kill her and who were now driving herring into her prison?