The following day Brock reported the attack to the village elders, describing in detail the creature’s preternatural speed, its lust for blood and his suspicions of the creature’s other powers. He reported that the creature was alone, although it had told him there’d been more of its kind, once. Age and madness had claimed them over the centuries until all that remained was the one called Mantika. With one death and an attack, an immediate meeting was called. There was only one solution and that would be to capture the culprit. But how?
After nearly the whole morning spent in debate, it was decided that Brock would lure the creature into the clearing by the river while men waited nearby with nets, and bows and arrows. It was a simple plan, but would have to be executed with careful attent
