Akyran's Folly
The scarfed man met my eyes, and we both turned, watching the sand seethe towards the red-haired man and his son who fled towards the village.
“Calthacien!” I yelled, spilling out the entire contents of my spell pouch and slamming my hand into the sand at our feet. Heat surged from my hand and I watched the surge of power through the sand, flowing like water, liquefying the sand into molten glass. The monster surged up through this liquid, shrieking as it burnt its skin.
The red-haired man threw his axe, embedding it into the monster’s skull and it fell.
“Monsters,” the scarfed man reminded me in the silence that fell afterwards and we both scanned the sand for ripples.
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