The place to which Malevolence's humans retreated was a part of the riverbank where flat sandy plains gave way to steep hills and even a few rocky cliffs, with only a few narrow passageways leading upward.
More humans were already lying in wait there, and others had rapidly joined them, while bees covered their backs.
A person less familiar with battles against evolving creatures would've thought that since bees could fly over the heads of the crocodile-beasts and shoot them from a safe distance, this was an entirely one-sided battle from the start, in which humans were just a liability.
This would've been nice, but Malevolence knew that if something like this were the case, these beasts would've been eaten by local insects and flying beasts a long time ago.
She didn't have any blue-eyed scouts, enough Oracles for precise prophecies, or a lot of time to watch the crocodile-beasts' behaviours, so she was ready for the unexpected.
