“How do you know?”
“I feel sick from the vibrations coming up through the ground. They are magnified. I think that has something to do with it. They are talking through the ground.”
The monsters started to edge away from the building they had been molesting, leaving it open for view. It was a guild house, seen by the crest above the door, the only part of it still intact and undamaged. Which guild it belonged to was a mystery, as the crest was in a state of flux, constantly blurred. One of the creatures began to lope towards them, the smaller of the adults. Ju shook the reins violently, trying not to look at the approaching creature, almost as big as the houses around which it stepped. The horse was unresponsive at first, resigned to the ending that fate had decided for it, but then it r
