CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
I yanked myself out of the creature’s grasp and scrambled back. My heel tripped on the uneven ground and I fell back onto my butt. More shadowy figures shuffled out of the mist, all rotten corpses with ruined clothes and terrible wounds.
The creature slouched toward me, its hands stretching out to wrap around my throat. I gasped and the extra air intake allowed me enough strength to scramble backward.
I had only gone a yard when my back hit something hard. A wisp of ruined cloth tickled my nose. I slowly tipped my head back and found myself staring into the empty eye sockets of another soldier. This one had gray fur on his cheeks and wolf ears poked out from his rotten cap. He held a broken short sword in his putrid hand and bits of dirt crumbled off the blade
