kt smiled and returned to her chair , jon pressed lightly on the fuel pedal and the heavy truck slowly moved forward , when it got within a meter or so of the rimorgar one of the huge beasts lifted it great head and moved to meet this strange metal intruder , its thick nose horn bumped the front of the truck and then scraped along its surface , the wide nostrils of the creature drew in several lungfuls of combustion odor then the beast gave out with a long bellow .