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Sekhmet nodded once and moved out.
He traveled fast through the dead woods, following the bats as they guided him. The path twisted, but in daylight it was easier to read. Broken branches, disturbed stones, dried blood smears where bodies had been dragged.
Ssshhh…
He reached the cave area.
What he saw made his stomach turn.
Bodies.
Dead kobols everywhere, piled at odd angles like someone had dumped sacks of meat and forgot to arrange them. Some were split open. Some were torn. Some had bite marks that looked too large to belong to kobols.
The entrance was stained dark, dried blood crusted on stone like old paint.
Sekhmet stepped closer, eyes narrowed.
He activated Blood Eye, scanning quickly.
All dead.
No signs of living kobols hiding.
No signs of human corpses.
But also…
No ghouls.
Sekhmet's throat tightened.
"Did they die and get dragged away?"
He listened.
Nothing.
