Then Nathair heard something else, a scuttling sound that grew louder, and as he looked the very forest floor appeared to…move. He peered harder, trying to pierce the gloom of the forest, saw undergrowth swaying, collapsing under the weight of some invisible force, a wave like a great slick of oil spreading over the forest, black and scuttling. Getting closer and closer. Nathair felt a fist of fear clench around his heart. He did not know what it was, but instinctively he knew that it wasn’t anything good. Beneath him his draig rumbled uneasily, shifting from foot to foot. And then the first
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