Maybe Tal was cut out for monster hunting.
Maybe he wasn't.
There was only one way to find out, though, and he'd followed Deimos like a duckling to help scout out some troubling occurrences in Hak Etme.
It was his first time in the desert, but he was relieved that it wasn't as bad as the Climb. Boreal sulked in the pale blue sky overhead, a constant grumble in the back of the courier's mind as she complained about the heat, and Tal tried not to echo her out loud as he slogged across the sand with his pack over his shoulders and sweat running down his back and chest, soaking his long-sleeved shirt.
At least the landscape made for an excellent distraction. The bones near the shrine were strange and fascinating, and Tal paused to peer into a skull's eye socket that was bigger than his head--
And jumped back with a yelp when a fuzzy spider larger than his hand hopped onto the socket's edge to glare at him and wave its chelicerae threateningly.
Deimos
Maybe he wasn't.
There was only one way to find out, though, and he'd followed Deimos like a duckling to help scout out some troubling occurrences in Hak Etme.
It was his first time in the desert, but he was relieved that it wasn't as bad as the Climb. Boreal sulked in the pale blue sky overhead, a constant grumble in the back of the courier's mind as she complained about the heat, and Tal tried not to echo her out loud as he slogged across the sand with his pack over his shoulders and sweat running down his back and chest, soaking his long-sleeved shirt.
At least the landscape made for an excellent distraction. The bones near the shrine were strange and fascinating, and Tal paused to peer into a skull's eye socket that was bigger than his head--
And jumped back with a yelp when a fuzzy spider larger than his hand hopped onto the socket's edge to glare at him and wave its chelicerae threateningly.
Deimos
