The Golden Gate was a suspension bridge with the two massive vertical towers carrying the weight of the two swooping, three-foot-in-diameter main cables. At fifty-foot intervals so-called suspender ropes, actually groups of four three-inch-thick cables, hung taut from the cable. It was these suspender ropes that attached to the road supports and carried the road suspended from the main cables, which in their turn hung from the two great towers.

Justin swung his sword arm and sliced through the nearest set of four suspender ropes. The steel ropes twanged and whipped wildly like electrified snakes.

“Let us pass!” Justin demanded.

“Get down, down, on your face!”

Justin sliced through a second set of cables, and beneath his claw feet he felt the roadway shudder and sag just the slightest bit.

Monster, Chapter 11