Chapter 25: Well what do you know, I might be going crazy.
A strange, almost hysterical sense of irony washed over Adrian. After the monster-girl and the goblins, after dying and coming back to life, the sight of a single wolf should have been terrifying. Instead, he felt an odd calm. This was a danger he could understand. Unlike the others who were no doubt similar to non conventional creatures who he couldn't quite understand their motives completely, this was just a hungry animal.
His calm shattered as the beast lunged. It was fast, it's speed turned it into a blur of grey and white, covering the distance between them in two powerful bounds.
Adrian didn't think, but his body moved instinctively. Before he knew, he sidestepped away from the beast.
The wolf's snapping jaws closed down on empty air where his thigh had been. Not only that but while mid air, avoiding the wolf, he brought the curved blade of his sickle down in a slashing arc, slashing against the beasts neck.
