Vol 3 Chapter 8 (1/2)

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at 23rd of December 2018 10:22:57 PM

Chapter 8

Book 3, Chapter 8 - Oddball Attacks

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The three h theand onto the roof ledge belowFrom there, they slipped overhead until they could drop down unseen onto a quiet streetThey took furtive looks to the left and right before quickly racing offThey almost made it out of the settlement before their plans were unceres caught their earsArrows started screa passed

“Careful! It’s an ambush!+”

The sudden attack took Gibbon and the scarred thug by surpriseThey were too slow, and both were al with arrow shaftsOne screamed in pain and fell to the floorThe other was pinned to a nearby wallIt happened in the blink of an eye

Their leader was also caught off guard and one of the arrows caught hi away now

It was only a fewattackers

A entlemen approached, with his thick arirl, and we’ll let you live”

The insidious reed, but here he wasGritting his teeth, he dragged the tightly wrapped body of Autuht“This bitch is mine, who the fuck are you to keep all the profit for yourselves? Take one more step and I’ll kill herI asked already, and she told me where there’s et shi+t!”

“Look at this one, acting like he can make demands” The burlyan intricate weave of tattoos across his chest“Try itIf you’ve got the balls”

The thief’s eyes ide“HighwayrinsThe Highwayest criminal enterprise in the borderlandsThey had eyes and ears in every outpost, that’s how they were able to pick off roup was a cell who operated in the Sandbar, and one of them had been in the variety shop when Autumn came inHe saw the parcel she flashed and had ierously“You know us, e can do, andoutKill her, if you think you can”

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“Fine! I give upRuthless fucks!”

The hwayressivenessIf he really killed the wo toabout it for a minute he decided his life wasn’t worth itSo he stepped back until he was a few ht he was safe, put the girl down

“Kill hi injured, the man couldn’t avoid all of the arrows that cah him as he screamed, then met his violent end

His dee hwaymen”

All of the noise had stirred Autu-induced haze, but the anesthetic still made her weakShe could hardly le onto her back to see as happening

“Bring her!” The big man waved a hand“Let’s move”

“Who are you? I don’t know you!” Autumn saw the corpses and fear crept into her face“What are you going to do with s walked over to her, but not to chatOne brought his hand back to knock her out

Just then there was a flash of yellow that swept across both men’s throatsTheir heads lurched back as pillars of blood spat from newly-made holes in their necksAutumn was quickly soaked in hot, red fluidThe men were dead before they knew it

“What the fuck?!” The bigon the groundFinally the ood look, and what they saw baffled them

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It was a bird, about the size of a fistIts neck was almost comically short, with the head and body of an owlIts whole body was covered in golden feathers and a pair of big round eyes stared unblinking at the crewThey were bright and intelligent, and as the bird flapped its wings blood splattered off its right side

A bird? What the fuck kind of ani eyesAt rest, the goofy-looking thing see about it hinted that the bird could e

The look on the bigdidn’t seem like aabout it“Shoot it,” he ordered

It was just a bird, right?

MesThere was no lack of decent fighters in their ranksThe little golden bird would ht, as they reset their crossbows