The Luna Queen's Blood Oath
He led me about ten feet to the left of the path, pushing aside a thick, snow-laden bush.
The stench hit me first the cloying, sweet smell of decay, masked by the cold but unmistakable. Lying in a shallow hollow was a skeleton, clad in the rotted remnants of what looked like leather armor.
It was curled in on itself, its spine arched unnaturally. Embedded in its ribcage and the frozen earth beneath it were dozens of long, sharpened wooden stakes that had clearly shot out from the side of the path.
A cold dread, entirely different from the chill of the mountain, seeped into my bones.
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