The sulfur smell intensified, like fire suddenly taking hold of the forest. I glanced past the unicorn, but her brightness left my eyes maladjusted to the dark. I couldn’t see anything until the bodies in the shadows materialized right before us.
The smell hadn’t belonged to the unicorn. It belonged to the monsters that suddenly surrounded the unicorn, monsters that had been hunting the creature I found first.
A ghostly howl rang out to the south heralding the monsters’ appearance.
Inky black bodies stepped forth into the glade. Their smooth scales glimmered in the moon glow, bodies serpentine and muscular, with prowling paws tipped in razor black claws. Black bat wings hugged their flanks as they churned around us, three animals that I recognized. David had warned me about these mon
