Chapter 21
Josef had thought the night couldn’t get any worse. Standing over the dead body of a Brachen he realised how wrong he’d been. Fighting them had been hard enough before, when they had seemed to be monstrous creatures, but now he knew different. They weren’t monstrous creatures.
No, that was wrong. They hadn’t been monstrous creatures, not until recently. Now they were, but before they had been people, ordinary people. To be precise, they’d been people who had disappeared in the recent attacks. Possessions in the pockets of their ruined clothing had helped identify them.
That horror was bad enough, but worse were the reports coming in of more people being abducted. Now Josef knew the fate that awaited them the thought made him feel sick. Word of what had happened was a
