blowing into their lodge like a hurricane wind , slapping open and breaking the three-planked door ... knocking down the harj bear skullit cracks and splinters ... stomping in with such a suddenness that frak and darlm are caught in the midst of a breathit is his last ... for he catches frak by the nape and with a slash of an ivory-tusk blade slits his throat from side to side ... there is stench and there is a gurgling , sucking sound ... acting so swiftly , so fearsomely that darlm has not blinked .