Crouching down in front of each other, the challengers began to stir up the roosters by rhythmically leaning them forward until they brushed against each other so that they would start pecking, and then immediately retracting them.
Powerless in the monstrous hands, the bird pecked hysterically where it could. It had to obey: the titan who held it with no pos-sibility of escape held all power over it, but he did it no harm, that was not the enemy; perhaps he was even a merciful saviour god who wished to rescue it from the miserable fate designed for it by a malignant Moloch, but it had to earn its salvation.
So who could the mortal enemy that struck terror into its bones be, if not its own kind, prisoner of the hostile titan?
It was he whom had to strike down with blind fury to escape co
