The Circle of Standing Stones
Silently the flame arrives, blue in color and burning with the heat of the woman’s anger. Silently it arrives and in arriving it shatters silence much as it shatters the stones behind the banewolves. Shards of stones fly outward by the hundreds. At the advancing of the flame the banewolves began to move, leaping forward toward the great standing stones. The first two find their progress arrested abruptly, however, as the ground upon which they land has more of the substance of liquid than of solid about it. Caught in the mire prepared by the woman and unable, for the moment at least, to move, they are struck by the stony shards. A third banewolf has found safe landing on a flat stone within the mire and tenses itself to leap forward toward the woman.
At least two others remain unaccounted for, their droning calls having grown silent once more ......
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