Seven Stones: Part Twenty-Five
Previously on Seven Stones: After Anessa kills the second mutated boar, a hideous insect flickers out of its head. Anessa shoots but the quarrel passes straight through. Kobb is more successful. Continuing on, they find another dead boar and a lone hunter. Before they can find out what happened, the man grabs Kobb’s Courser.
Kobb rose smoothly, rapier singing out to point at the man’s heart. In the corner of his eye, he saw Anessa raise her crossbow. Shifting his weight onto his front foot, Kobb adjusted his guard to account for his target’s likely choices.
“Stay calm.” Haelen turned, palms raised. “We want to help.”
“Killing stone…” Gripping the Courser by its middle, the man waved it in the air. “Come through. Danger wrong.”
“Don’t have to be bad.” Anessa waggled her crossbow. “But we ain’t doing nothing until you put that down.”
The patterns on the Courser’s hilt stayed dull and not even light glinted from the crystal. The hunter wasn’t holding it as if he intended to use it either. Something about it had scared him. Could he have seen something similar? Settling into a neutral stance, Kobb let the point of his rapier drop to a defensive guard.
