And we couldn't expect to take life for life, charging a position like theirs in the night.

It can't be a stand-up battle.

It's got to be science against savagery, or nothing." A murmur of approval trickled along the sands.

Confidence was returning.

The Legionaries' hearts tautened again with faith in this strange, this usually silent and emotionless man whose very name was unknown to almost all of them.
"Just one other word," the Master continued, his voice calm, unshaken, quite impersonal.