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"I thought the cave was bad"

Despite their head wrappings, Mirceo could detect the dehts about this op?"

"Not about the op," he muttered

"What does that mean?"

"It ht convince me we have no chance" They stared at each other What is he thinking?

"Noted"

Seriously, demon? "That's all you'll say?"

"If we don't focus for the next couple of hours, soet killed Or worse"

"Worse?"

"You want to live out eternity as a Wendigo?" A single bite or scratch from those creatures could transforan to clap his hands loudly

"Pardon me, demon, I'm not one to tell you how to do your job--but won't that attract Wendigos?"

More clapping "Exactly"

"Ah So we'll be the first in the Lore to voluntarily draw the notice of a legion of these creatures?"

"Yeah"

Mirceo shrugged "Very well" If the demon said this needed to be done, then so be it He brandished his sword and fell into place beside Caspion "Onward!"

Red eyes glowed in the distance as a Wendigo loped out of the canyon toward them Another followed it And another

They had long, stretched-out faces, dripping fangs, and daggerlike claws Patches of greasy hair grew over their gray skin Re to their withered, hunchbacked bodies--because they'd once been sentient beings

As the Wendigos charged,like an avalanche Dozens of them A wall of the creatures approached from about a hundred feet away

"Onward?" Caspion de free his sword "You don't think I' that?"

Eighty feet away

"There's a fine line between crazy and brave I trust you in all things--except in relationship matters Then you must bon to me"

Fifty feet away

Caspion scanned the wave "If we live through this, the hunters at the tavern will never believe we took on this os Must be a hundred" He was in attack position, so comfortable with a sword

Mirceo's gaze would've lingered on the stalwart de threat seriously "They hen I recount our tale Since I can't lie"

Thirty feet awa

yAs the creatures closed in, the blustery winds couldn't dispel their putrid stench

Caspion slid him a look "Any immortal with sense would cut and run at this point"

"Leave?" Mirceo scoffed "You know I'll always fight by your side, demon In any case, this is the best date I've ever been on"

"We are not on a date"

Mirceo laughed

Ten feet away

Caspion swung for the closest one, beheading it The creature's brown blood sprayed on the wind Mirceo got the next one, slicing the Wendigo so fast that its head remained in place until the body toppled over

Mirceo shared a look with Caspion Cool "We're tied, old er I'll drop more than you"

Voice exhilarated, the de! A fool and his money" He took down one

Mirceo got busy, tracing into the fray Soon they were tied at six each Corpses began to pile up, body parts littering the fight zone

"Watch where you're stepping! Don't trip over a head"

"Speaking of head"--Mirceo decapitated a hulking Wendigo--"I'll drink froht for eternity"

As Caspion swung a killing blow, he muttered, "Shouldn't have happened"

"Surely you don't regret that pleasure" Mirceo slashed at another Wendigo, dropping it

The deret a blowjob Doesn't mean I want to repeat it with you"

Lout!