The Beast

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We’d tracked the creature for miles, back to its lair in the mountains. The labyrinthine tunnels allowed it to pick off my hearty dwarven companions one by one in the dark. 

Now I’m alone. I’ll have just the one opportunity to defeat the beast before it tears my weakened body to shreds

I pulled out the magical scroll from my robe and started to remove the seal. I fumbled the case and it dropped from my fingers and rolled away into the dark

“Darn it” I muttered as the abomination slipped from the shadows and extended its wicked looking claws