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“Crastus!” Alexandar shouts He’s about to jump down to try to rescue his friend If he dies, this is all for nothing I grab hi

A million bats explode in a fury Let their thermal optics deal with that

I drag Alexandar and wethe narrow shelf and out the cathedral, harried by bats the entire way One’s attached itself to Drusilla Alexandar cuts its head off with his razor and peels out its bristles Drusilla sicks up on the floor, but stuht’s body After a series of turns, we find ourselves near the end of the Fear Knight’s map It is a limestone cha fro the biolu in m

e “What is it?” Drusilla asks Alexandar “Are we lost?”

“This isn’t on the map,” he says

“What do you mean it isn’t on the map?” she asks Instead of two tunnels, there are seven

Ignacius hurls the Fear Knight to the ground “I knew this was a fool’s errand Looks like it’s a fight after all”

Drusilla slu heavily from the milkbat venom “We’re almost out of ammunition Which way is it?”

“I don’t know,” Alexandar says He pockets the ht’s face “Wake up Wake up, damn you!” He doesn’t “Shit We make our stand here Hit them as they come in Make this a melee affair”

“They have Golds too,” I say

“Not like us”

“A lovely sentiment, but untrue,” Drusilla says “There’s at least fifteen Scars But it’ll be Berserks they send in first”

“Then we die with glory,” Ignacius mutters

Alexandar searches the tunnels The wrong one will lead us off the ht starve to death before we find a way out He’d rather fight than trust his chances with that

The Arcosian Knights follow Alexandar’s commands and take up positions around the room to ambush our pursuers, as if you can ambush anyone with therht, it should have been in the guano grotto Positively criic