MAD END'S DECEPTION
Araheen leaped, landed lightly atop its crown, drove one blade down through the ridge between its eyes, then dragged the other along the length of its back until the body split wetly apart.
Another beast rose from the muck—many-legged, bloated, all fungus and teeth—and she glided beneath its snapping jaw, opened its belly from sternum to spine, and let one of her crafted guardians finish it in a spray of blue-black entrails.
The stench around her was monstrous.
Rot, bile, old blood, damp fur, split organs, burned hide.
Blood of many colors splashed across her skin and garments—green, black, violet, a sickly yellow too bright to be natural. She scarcely noticed. The filth did not matter. The
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