Rex on the Beach

Rex on the Beach is the sixth story in the second Orphans of Mars book, To Bell The Cat. It is the climactic chapter on the novel, and was originally published as Orphans of Mars: To Bell The Cat # 6.

Nisja of Titan is slain by the old rex, who then turns his attention to the gravely injured Nerrine. Fenn and Ress intervene, and Fenn is carried off by the thief. Ress risks her own life to blow off the rex's tail with Nisja's atomizer. The rex retreats, screaming.