" A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We’d never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. ‘I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.’ ‘Me too.’ ‘And that’s why we’re still alive.’ ‘Aye. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen