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Frost Quarry, I Fell Once

from Ash by half/moon

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The hunter that leaped toward Ash didn't even have time to touch the being before Felix's hammer connected, sending them flying between the trees and halting their motions for good. Felix grabbed Ash by the shoulder and checked them for wounds, then both chased the sound of footsteps back to the quarry.

Her hunters dove down the steep edges into the quarry and descended on the camp, slaughtering many of the traveling party. Gunshots rang out from the pit as Aurora retaliated. Vincent struck with an old military saber, once a relic considered useless in a real fight, but imbued with some spiritual power in the cold.

Ash and Felix slid down a steep road into the fight and helped to push back the hunters, buying the traveling group time to escape, led by the boy from the market. As the four who remained prepared to follow, though, they found themselves totaly surrounded.

"They are here for me," Ash whispered. "I have seen the truth of the Moon, and they will not let me leave."

Felix returned a reassuring smile and told them, "They would not be the first servants of the Moon that I've killed."

Hunters with knives, with hammers, and with their bare hands tumbled over the quarry walls and toward the fighters. They did not care whether they reached the floor in one piece, and such a trained shot was Aurora that many never even got that far. Those who grew closer were cut to pieces by Vincent's saber, or crushed by Felix. Ash themself even managed to help in the battle, though their small hammer was never made for such bulk work.

They fought until the hunters were spent, then came the beasts, who descended without effort down the quarry walls to chew on their prey. The fighters were wounded repeatedly, for wounds were inevitable, but still they fought until everything that came for them was slain, and miraculously, the quarry fell silent when only the travelers remained.

They stood in a stone clearing, surrounded by the bodies of hunters and beasts, soaked in blood that chilled them to the bone, but somehow still breathing.

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from Ash, released May 16, 2020

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