The mouth moved like it was whispering but all he heard was an unsteady hum that made his teeth ache. It wasn't supposed to be there so early, it was meant to run its usual rounds and gather a few more children before dawn when they were supposed to meet in the blood halls to finish it all.
Unfortunately parents were guarding their children more thoroughly since the last dozen bodies rolled down from the mountaintop to the highway below. It hadn't been a pretty sight once the dense fog cleared and everyone saw that they hadn't been driving over mud and rocks all that time.
That's when they hired him, or rather some local prophecy mentioned him and the townsfolk offered him a decent enough sum to bribe him over there. If only the monster had read the same scrolls he had - maybe then it would have had the decency to wait for a few minutes while he finished setting up.
Now he was left with a half destroyed altar, a barely drawn banishing circle and nowhere near enough gunpowder to blow the place up when he was done and to make matters worse the creature was clearly trying to say something with a mouth that wasn't made to speak in this dimension and all it was succeeding in doing was making the few surviving children cry and tear at their ears.
As it began to walk closer towards him he wondered if he should have just taken half the cash and run.
Unfortunately parents were guarding their children more thoroughly since the last dozen bodies rolled down from the mountaintop to the highway below. It hadn't been a pretty sight once the dense fog cleared and everyone saw that they hadn't been driving over mud and rocks all that time.
That's when they hired him, or rather some local prophecy mentioned him and the townsfolk offered him a decent enough sum to bribe him over there. If only the monster had read the same scrolls he had - maybe then it would have had the decency to wait for a few minutes while he finished setting up.
Now he was left with a half destroyed altar, a barely drawn banishing circle and nowhere near enough gunpowder to blow the place up when he was done and to make matters worse the creature was clearly trying to say something with a mouth that wasn't made to speak in this dimension and all it was succeeding in doing was making the few surviving children cry and tear at their ears.
As it began to walk closer towards him he wondered if he should have just taken half the cash and run.
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