The skeleton screeched like something out of a nightmare, its bony frame shuddering violently, and then was still.
She gagged on the nauseating smell even as her sword's point scraped along the unliving soldier's lacquered-leather breastplate and lodged somewhere in its bony neck. The thing stumbled and fell on top of her. Jasilia kicked with all her might, her boot heel slamming into the creature's shin. She looked up to find a skeletal form looming, the desert sun glinting through the thing's partially exposed ribcage. She thrust out a leg and dug a foot into the sand, sliding to a halt beneath a man-sized shadow.Ī putrid stench wafted over her. She tumbled down the dune's face, for a moment out of control.
#The unliving blog skin
The Risen Guard's next swing lopped off the unliving soldier's head, which rolled down the dune's side, leaving behind shreds of rotting skin on the baking sand.Īs Nekhtep swung the camel around to face the other soldiers, Jasilia pried herself free from his grasp and flung herself onto the sand. Moldering flesh hanging in loose patches from its skull, the creature raised a longsword only to see the weapon driven out of its hands by a powerful blow from Nekhtep's khopesh. The move seemed to take the skeletal thing by surprise. With a cry, Nekhtep kicked his heels into the camel's sides and swung the beast toward the ghastly soldier on their left, charging down the dune's face.
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