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The flame demon was smaller, the size of a s speed Its tiny, diamond-hard iridescent scales overlapped seaht, and Jardir recalled his lessons about the creature’s deadly firespit Across the ambush point was a pool in which the warriors would atteai filled Jardir with utter loathing The creatures were a plague upon the Ala, Nie’s taint coht, he would help send the back into the abyss

"Hold," Hasik warned, feeling hi hih hiai passed theht out onto the tarp covering the de in with a shriek The other sand de onto the back of the slower Baiter It dug its claws into the man’s back and bit hard into his shoulder The warrior was knocked down, but he did not screae from the ambush pocket

Jardir let the warrior’s roar explode froht and carrying him forith the others They s the his spear and knocking the flaed hi his best to stem the flow of blood

There was a cry, and Jardir turned to see that the first sand de tarp protecting its talons fro off the nearest warrior’s leg at the knee The warrior screaap in the shield wall The de

"Shield up!" Hasik called, and Jardir coht of the demon He was knocked down, but not before the wards flared, throwing the alagai back The deain, but Jardir thrust his spear fro the demon between its breastplates He braced the butt of the spear against the ground to create a fulcrum, and used the demon’s own momentum to hurl it away

Still in midair, bolas froround bound tight It began tearing at the ropes with its teeth, and Jardir could hear the bindings snap under pressure from its corded naled, and a pair of warriors broke off to harry the flame demon while the rest encircled the sand demon with a wall of interlocked shields Whenever the demon struck at a warrior, those behind it stabbed with their spears The weapons could not pierce its ar nonetheless When it turned to face its attackers, their shields snapped into place and those behind struck

The Pit Warder had cleared the tarp fro the pit, as the warriors began to force the de the shield wall Eventually, the creature backed up to the pit’s edge, and the warriors therethose who thrust their spears to drive the deht burn you!" he screamed as he stabbed The dereatest moment of his life

Jardir looked around the ambush point Two dal’Sharum had the flame de pool The water steamed and boiled as the demon thrashed, but the warriors held it steady until the last twitch

The wounded Baiter seeh, but Moshka, lay in a pool of blood, gasping and pale He caught Jardir’s eye and beckoned to him and Hasik, ent to him

"Finish it," he breathed "I have no wish to live as a cripple"

Jardir glanced at Hasik

"Do it," Hasik ordered "It is not right to let hihts flashed to Abban Howhim a warrior’s death?

A dal’Sharum’s duty is to support his brothers in death, as well as life, Qeran had said

"My spirit is ready," Moshkaers, he pulled open his robe,aside the fired-clay ar his chest Jardir looked in his eyes and saw honor and courage Things Abban had been severely lacking

He thrust his spear with pride