-CLEIN-
My brow furrowed when Sun Gunnar and I emerged from the cave. With the aid of the night sky luminaries, I realized that we were on an intermittent river bank beneath a small cliff.
Then I spotted a few of Sun Gunnar's men outside. They crouched cautiously among the shrubs spread out in the natural chamber's entryway, aware of their surroundings.
My legs stopped moving when I recognized it was déjà vu. "What are they doing?" I questioned Sun Gunnar as I peered out into a shadowy section of the woods. Dread rose in my gut as I thought about our prior encounter with the massive reptiles. I hardly ever thought of myself as fragile; rather, in that realm, I was skeptical of the species' existence and wanted to be there experiencing it for myself to believe.
He did not respond to my
