The Pack's Dragon
“We’ll have to find another car to steal. It’s too far to walk and we have too much to carry.”
“I’m sorry, Lyric,” Niarthen reached out and took her hand. “That was unpleasant.”
“Unpleasant,” she repeated numbly. “Whatever the fuck that was, unpleasant was way down the line of descriptions that I would use.”
“That was dark magic,” he told her solemnly. “You are lucky that your life has been free of it thus far for you to not recognize it when you see it, but there is nothing else that it could be. It was an ill-tiding for what we will see ahead of us, Lyric. We must ask ourselves why a creature of foul magic is wandering the land. Is it a guardian of some type? Has it been set along this roa