Page 4 - Classroom Overtime Edition 2

And everyone in the city believed this for two reasons. For one, their

leader was a person that rarely lied, and two, from deep inside, there

came cries of pain and horrifying growls, and scrapes as sharp claws

against the stone walls inside. It was a terrible punishment to be fed to

the beast. The gates to the city clanged open and a party of these black

creatures marched in two organised files. Redham glanced upwards,

looking towards his men, and gave an involuntary grunt of surprise as he

saw that many of them were limping or sporting wounds. Then he noticed

the men on stretchers, all of them ominously still. In the middle of the

marching column, there was a small, white, two-legged shrimp with not

much hair on his arms and legs. He wore strange material over his body

and appeared to be very weak. He was in heavy Cawagori proof chains.

Redham slowly recognised the scrawny thing.