Café de Nuit

"It may be beyond us, now," Bennedict says, looking dubiously at the roadway. "The rain and the lack of trail is going to make pursuit difficult."

"If we lose the monster, perhaps we should release the prisoner and find where it goes," says Klokulf. "We could trace this thing's trail back instead, but we would go in blind."

Raen, somewhat annoyed by the rain looked at the cleric. "You mean this plantlike thing? Are we sure it even knows where to head to? Generally I think we should put a little more effort and then keep the creature and come here tomorrow. "

alhoon wrote:Raen, somewhat annoyed by the rain looked at the cleric. "You mean this plantlike thing? Are we sure it even knows where to head to? Generally I think we should put a little more effort and then keep the creature and come here tomorrow. "

KATRIN sees the earth near the road on one side shift and slide under the heavy rain.
Then a whole section rises like a huge serpent composed of sodden, wilted vegetation and black mud.
Its slimy maw looks big enough to swallow a child whole.
She has time to cry out, warning her companions, before the Serpentine Thing clears the ditch in which it had lain hidden and closes the short distance to the group.




END OF PART 3