"Horia lay about a hundred feet away, separated by a trough of water full of some kind of serrated swamp grass. They'd camouflage themselves with leaves and mud, each guarding of the two parallel trails that came from the north and led to the Predators ship. This was the place where the trails came closest to each other. On the far side of both lay deeper deeper water. They'd agreed that an ambush here made more sense than closer to the spaceship. The Predator would be more on its guard the closer it got to safety."pg.326

"A stones throw ahead on both trails, They'd hidden mines taken from Base X. If anyone they didn't want to blow up appeared, they'd have time tonwarn them well before they reached the mines. Gustat had thought of the mines when he and Horia had worked out the plan because they couldn't be sure whether or not the Predator would have activated its camouflage. The mines seemed like a good early-warning system."pg.326-327

"For a moment, the huge shadow that suddenly erupted out of the water to his right was Onyx,saying, "Gustat. Is it worth it? Was it all worth it?"pg.327 chpt.101