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Gril reached down and swept up L’eon, who jumped from Gril’s shoulder to Madas’s, and wrapped his small front feet around a thick section of her hair to keep from falling off. The fire sticks they carried would not keep the hairy beasts away for long. L’eon could sense dozens of the creatures circling them, but his focus was on the large one that Madas and Gril had not yet seen. L’eon had picked up its presence using the electrical receptors along his nose.
His sensitive nose twitched at the smell of them, and he stood on his hind legs on Madas’s shoulder. He snarled a warning. The hairy beasts closest to him sensed the danger they were in and pulled back.
Ahead was a labyrinth of bones. They wove around most, and passed through the mouth of one particularly large creature, the bones
