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I froze and whipped my head about. The voice had seemingly come from nowhere and everywhere. I stumbled back and clutched my arms against my chest as I frantically searched for the source. “W-who said that?”
Eric glared up at the sky. “Stop scaring her.”
It is hardly my fault that she has such little courage.
Eric looked past me and frowned. “That doesn’t mean you have to keep to the shadows.”
I felt a cold chill fall over my back, and slowly turned around. A huge shadow some eight feet tall stretched out from mine and loomed over me. The thing was humanoid, but there were definite monster parts. Its head which was more akin to that of a dog, and its hands stretched into long claws. The legs were thin and bony, almost skeletal in appearance. A pair of piercing yellow eyes
