in her minds eye , she saw the shadowy reeds of the sway spilling past her leg , the dark blur of iman streaking this way and that as he loosed his quarrels at the slithering beast , the thunder of hooves roaring beneath her , the screams of her fellow adviser from just to the right , his mouth so biologically obscene that she almost drew her eyes from the sight behind her and did as he ordered , almost looked away from monster by the corrals as it rose from the grass and prepared to give chase , almost missed it doing something so unsettling that the sight would haunt her for the remainder of the night , staying with her even as she assured herself that she was too big for that to happen to her , her head too large to fit up there in that grea mums ?