Akyran's Folly
I replied, and stilled.
The scarfed man did likewise. “Stop!” He called out to the others.
“What?” The bearded man asked.
“The sand moved,” the scarfed man replied.
“The sand always moves,” the woman replied. The sand shifted, rising up, and then settling down, as if something large had moved up and then gone down again. “Admittedly, not like that,” she amended drawing her wickedly hooked knives.
With a deafening screech, something horrifying surged out of the sand, seized a mouthful of my skeletons, before diving back into the sand as if it were water, scattering bones in its wake.
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