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“What seals do you mean?” I asked feeling that I had already lost grip of the story.

“Ricka, you haven’t been listening to me all this time!” she screamed. “There is someone casting spells in our valley, and we have no least idea!” she was indignant. “I’ll have to tell Mammy about….”

But I still could not focus on what she was saying as I got some strange, yet familiar, feeling crawling in my chest. I shook my head trying to see what was wrong, and next moment my hands, all by themselves, touched the daggers on my belt.

Silence… It was absolute silence around, disturbed only by a distant sound of water and Elcha’s chatter. The rest of the world seemed not to exist. I looked at my sister who was sitting on a large boulder and trying to shake sand out of her boots. My glance ran over her shoulder… And there I froze, seized with horror that made me forget how to breathe.

Right behind her, on a steep wall, pressing its claws into the stone, the beast was descending quietly, with its moving mane stretching the tentacles forward, its nostrils swelling large enough to draw in not just the air but all the stones around, and never blinking or moving its violently burning eyes off its prey.

Elcha cut her story and stared at me, bewildered – my face must have had too eloquent a palette of colors that were enough to get my feelings without a word.

“Run, Elcha, run!” I screamed pulling the blades out of the sheath and rushing to cover her. She immediately realized everything and, jumping off the boulder, tried to rush to the river, yet was definitely too slow against the monster. It jumped, too, and would have got her right there, but ran into my claw – I had released one of the chains a split second before.

The creature roared and fell onto the stones, while I quickly pulled the blade out still

wondering how I had managed it.

“There! Fast!” I pointed toward a small cleft between the rocks hoping the beast would prove too large to squeeze in.

I could hear stones rustling behind and then a growl followed, which was getting closer. I grabbed Elcha by the arm and ran pulling her along.