THEY BEGAN RUNNING up the steps of the Super Slide like maniacs, Dieter (limping) and two others, Hannah and Horst, as one of the Ts separated from the others and bolted toward them. Horst was picked off almost instantly, the T having thundered halfway up the first rise and dipped its head over the railing—snatching him from the stairs by his head and shaking him viciously before hurtling him against the curved fiberglass with a sickening smack! and pinning him there beneath its tri-clawed foot, which it raked backward suddenly, gutting him like a fish. Then it was continuing its pursuit, ascending parallel to the upward-slanting staircase even as its feet began to slip on the slick fiberglass of the slides ... to the point that its bearing became increasingly unsteady and it had to stop.
