Chapter Ten: RegroupingDerek was practically walking backwards, convinced that more hounds would spring from the bushes behind them. They had encountered nearly a dozen dogs now, but he knew full well that packs of these hideous dog demons could be as big as forty animals.
These creatures, a nightmarish hybrid between Paravelian night hounds and demons, travelled in clutches of two or three, each clutch a tiny satellite of a much bigger pack. The pack kept in constant contact by sounds, smell and some said telepathic means. When one of them was slaughtered, it sent out a signal to the rest of the pack, summoning them to its corpse and hopefully its killer. They could sense even the faintest drops of blood on clothes or skin, and were powerfully vengeful: to kill one hound was to take on t
