Worm

How it fights

A predator fights like something that has done this before and expects to again. It opens carefully, watches what you do with the first exchange, and commits only when the answer suits it. Nothing about it is overwhelming and nothing about it is forgiving either: it will take any opening you leave, and it is patient enough to wait for one rather than make its own.

Field notes

The great worms are heard before they are seen, a grinding in the rock like a mill a long way off, and then not far off. They eat the stone and leave the tunnel, and old tunnels are how the deep places join. They come to vibration: a struck pick, a running party, a fall of stone. Standing still is the whole art of meeting one and going away is the whole art of surviving it.

The roll

Under this kind stand one of the common sort.