Call of Night
It’s hard to hold the shield with this pain in my stomach, and I’m trying hard not to break my concentration and look down at myself, because now it feels like warm blood is dripping from an open wound in my abdomen.
The first dog-creature lets out a high-pitched whine and turns, running away from me.
“That’s what I thought.”
And then the other starts sprinting toward me. The creatures jump into the air at the same time, crashing into each other. A puff of that oozy, black smoke clouds around them, and the bigger of the two lands on the ground first, with its teeth clamped around the other’s neck.
It’s not killing it, but absorbing it. The two merge together as one, doubling in size.
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