Stalkers

~Wilderness~

Three bounty hunters hung to the tree line at the edge of a vast expanse of jagged rocks and boulders, all covered in a thick carpet of moss.

“What do you think?” Linc asked, squinting out over the naked plane.

“There’s no way around.” Vanderby whispered, looking left and right, then back at some boulders in front of them, and he tilted his head forward, “But I don’t like that.”

Two giant boulders lay a hundred yards ahead, each of them had a hole on top that was pooling with blood, running down the sides and staining the moss, standing out among the green blanket like red warning flags.

“Which way?” Vandery asked Estra, and she pointed directly across the expanse, causing Linc to give up a wry smile.

But as Vanderby took the first step, Linc followed, with his sword already raised a thumb-length from its sheath.

They had a bounty to catch, and they had come too far to go back now.

~Hegatha’s Swamp~