"What happened?" asked Teegan. "I saw you do something, just out of the corner of my eye, but what was it?"
"Well, with that spell I was using there, I can make a cloud of shadow descend upon my enemies and, except for the people I make it spare, it kills them all," explained Sukrae. "It's a.......,"
He was cut off by a yell from Taena.
"Watch out!" she screamed, as a zombie jumped from the hole above him and sunk a dagger into his right shoulder. He fell and, cracking his head on the cave wall, slid to the ground, unresponsive.
Teegan ran to him, aware as she ran that more zombies were dropping from the other holes, some already dead by Taena's blade.
Teegan got to Sukrae and the zombie that had attacked him rose up, snarling as it lifted the dagger that it had torn from his body.
Drool dripped from its rotten teeth, and Teegan was close enough to smell the horrid stench of it. Choking down the impulse to retch, she easily jumped aside, avoiding its attack and retaliating with a swing of her own that connected with its neck, beheading it.
Ignoring the rush around her she knelt down quickly at Sukrae's side; a gush of bright red blood was flowing from his wounded shoulder.
Please be alive, she prayed, checking for a pulse.
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