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Unsurprisingly, I didn’tain, I felt a little cal my eyes

I looked back at the swa as it waited for the next unfortunate passerby

I looked back up toward the top of the hill I’d clie to cliain, I’d have to backtrack and find another path to travel along--hopefully a less treacherous one

I was about to begin cli down the tree, n of

It sounded like it was echoing up from the bowels of one of the mountains, on my side of the swamp

The words were spoken by deep male voices

The words, the way they were pronounced, and the intonation sounded like they were being chanted by huue

Bewildered, I lowered myself down slowly from the tree

The swaround and began scralances back every few paces to check that it wasn’t followingby the tiht the voices were co frorassy glade, afraid thatby

I scanned the area, trying to figure out where the voices could possibly be e from

As I moved forward, I spotted a crater

I crawled closer to the edge of it and peered down

My eyes were almost scorched as fla around the other side of the hole to see if I could see any better

The fla down at a circle of seven ht they were h they had hu but human

They were naked from the waist upward

Their limbs were constructed as a human’s

I could see that their shoulder blades were capped with shining scales, and their ears were sharp and pointed

They all had dark skin, and theirto get a better look

They were all gathered around a pool of dark red liquid, surrounded by a ring of flae

One her fro the chant as they all repeated it after hiasped in horror to find ht yellow eyes

It was the swamp creature