The old hag pointed at him with her crooked, dirty fingers and yelled:
"Ubey yego!"
The one-eyed likhos went to attack him on all sides. Howard was alert this time. He struck the one close to getting him using just the umbrella with all his might.
The impact was enough to knock it off, and it crashed into the soft and sticky pews. It struggled to move away, and that gave him enough time to strike it in the eye again. The blood splattered on his clothes, but Howard Jones did not falter.
He received a bite mark on his shoulder from one of them, but did not mind it.
Instead, he threw his weight so that the one that clung to his shoulder with its teeth would swing and hit the other one going after him.
Again, it got stuck on the sticky goo, and he plunged that umbrella tip all the way until he felt it hit the skull itself.
