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As the rider struggled to bring up its loaded crossbow, Gehter"

She shoved the blazing prism into the rider’s chest wound as the rider scrabbled with the crossbow trigger Its tarry blood burned her hand, but she gritted her teeth and let go of the starfire before she ripped her hand from the creature’s chest cavity--which non like a comet

The rider dropped its crossbow and tried to tear the prisht coursed from its head to its toes, and it raised its hands in a silent screa behind the starfire--which still shone brilliantly

"Dihtness of the starfires decreased Geered to Stil, who had pushed hiling to lift his head

"We were concentrating too ht, and they wouldn’t be able to stand it"

"And you realized that how?"

"You said they couldn’t travel in daylight" Ge as she looked at Stil’s wound "What are we going to do?"

"It’s not as bad as it looks," he said when he ed to raise his head "Leave it in for now--to staunch the blood flow It’s not in very deep If we get back to the tent, I’ll be fine," he grimaced "I have a kit and some potions there By stars and fire dust, does this hurt"

"Can you stand? I could get Pricker Patch, but I don’t want to leave you," Gemma said

"No, I can walk If you would just helpwhined behind them

"…What happened to the hellhound?" Stil asked

Ge up the pris, eood-sized canine/wolf-ish looking creature It had thick white fur, but the tip of its tail was black, as were its paws and legs, almost as if it wore boots The tips of its ears were flecked with black too, and it had a number of odd but beautiful black marks around its eyes, like they had been inked by an artist

It sniffed its wet, inquisitive nose at Stil and Geed its tail

"I have never seen a creature like that," Stil said, claether in pain as Geo away?" Ge Stil’s arht