Kaedros watched as the healer opened her mouth to speak, only for her words to be lost forever.
She collapsed, a monster's leg lodged through her skull, blood spraying across her nearest companion.
The White steel stared in mute horror, paralyzed by the suddenness of Marr's death. But Han snapped out of it first. His body trembled, and faint red wisps of energy coiled around him like smoke.
"Who did that!" he roared, voice cracked with rage.
His axe glowed, a deep molten red, and as he stepped forward, the ground cracked beneath his boots. "Who dares?!"
A giggle answered him, a grotesque sound like a grown man imitating a baby's laugh. It came from the forest where the projectile had flown from.
And then it rose.
The monster.
