Chapter 1: MysteriesGlow in the cave, surrounding, luring me “Oh!!” Sinre woke up with tremors as the dream hit her hard and left a delicate dew of sweat over her forehead. The gelfling maiden sat, still trembling, in her bed, trying to remind herself why the dream was so scary, but it already started to fade, shooed by her consciousness like a cauldron smoke waved away by the hand of her mother.
“Again a daydream, mom?”
Chapter 2: Dangerous TimesStone, blood, wind, and bone “Kin!” the middle-aged Gelfling was shouting, trying to find his son in the tangles of the woods, which were especially thick here. He wasn’t too far from the village but the danger always waited for those who felt too comfortable in this forest. The hunters could cope with several of them, but definitely not all, and Numran wasn’t a hunter but a tailor. All he needed, was getting too far from the village and being attacked by a wild animal. “Kin!”
When they observed eating Kin, it dawned at them both that the danger is much greater than they suspected few moons ago. Madrans were rare and very brutal. They were basically cruel for simple cruelty. Fed on bones and flesh, nothing and no one really tried to battle those creatures, it was too risky and most of the olden days Stonewood gelflings were agreeing on not bothering the huge beasts. Yet sometimes the madrans were crossing their highly avoided territories out of lack of the meat to hunt. Then it was inevitable.
// Article written by skekMal //
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