Could they have killed the whole army in one instant?
Na-Groth’s captain stood up and stared into the dark.
His men stood poised and uneasy.
Not sure what they had done.
Not sure what there was still to do.
And as they listened, they began to hear, fine and eerie, a high pitched note, that seemed at first so faint that it could have been one of their own body-sounds, and then, gradually, gradually becoming so strong that they were aware of it outside themselves, and everywhere surrounding them... above them... in the air... in the sky...
It was unearthly.
It was like nothing they had heard before.
It chilled their hearts.
Some flailed about with weapons trying to find the source, but there seemed to be no source.
The sound was everywhere in equal intensity... strange, thin, hollo
