The First Mate
I stepped back to my mates, waiting until the creature finally crawled up the walls and into a crack above, its body flattening to fit.
"That was a baby?" Xav asked quietly.
"Yeah, he's only maybe a year old." I shrugged, pulling a stone from my vest.
"A year?" He hissed in surprise.
I looked back him, confused. "Yeah, the ones in the bunker are only six." I think the knowledge that Burhounds grew until they died, their lifespan was nearly a thousand year, was what shocked him.
No one had even found a full sized one, but there was rumours the tunnels we currently walked, were the insides of them.
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