No longer wounded, now defended, they feel relief and a swell of gratitude in equal measure.
"I owe each of you great thanks. It is heartening, to be found by those bearing light when so many would take advantage of the shadows."
It doesn't bear thinking about what might have happened if they were
"I owe each of you great thanks. It is heartening, to be found by those bearing light when so many would take advantage of the shadows."
It doesn't bear thinking about what might have happened if they were
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Slowly, they rise to their feet, now at their full health, accompanied by an orchestra of banded mail armor that shifts heavily as the move. They hoist themselves from the ground and ready for whatever need the others have of them.
But they catch Mattias'
She turns the head of one of the slain with her blade, but the souls of those here have long since left their bodies. At least their gear might prove useful, when this was over.
She moves on to march the perimeter as ordered, wishing, not for the first time,
[Survival DC 7: 19]
But her eyes are as sharp as her tongue today - besides that, the earth is soft, and it helps that a trail of blood flags each set of prints.
"Maggie! Here."
Maggie approached Tomomi where she identified some tracks, then she paused when she looked up and saw a snout before her, and a set of teeth
Ten sets of teeth smile at her in the darkness. Maggie straightened abruptly and withdrew her starknife, but not before a wolf bit at her arm, [26 to hit, 6 damage]. The next thing she knew, another wolf was at her side and bit at her leg, tearing into the armor and