Chapter 8: Antares (2)

Duke Gurat is taking revenge on me. Rowen ground his teeth as he drove his sword into the neck of a monster with a woolly, sheep-like body, bloodshot eyes, and magnificent, powerful antlers like a stag’s. If I were such a thorn in his side, he could’ve just killed me. Were the others safe? Rowen instinctively looked around for the friends he had unwittingly drawn into this death trap. A voice cracked through the battlefield like lightning and snapped him back to attention.