The spiders were never ending. Peter was tired of swinging his hammer, Adri could barely lift her sword. Their bodies were stacked up in walls of twitching burned creatures. Adri was shocked they could keep coming, eventually she'd figure they'd run out. But the bodies kept adding up and the blood and gore caking their weapons and armor got thicker and thicker.
"You know I'm kind of surprised they haven't tried to go around." Peter said something so stupid Adri wanted to smack him right in the face, but she knew she'd need him. Of course after he said that the spiders attacked from the other direction pinning them against the burning corpse wall and the still surging spiders coming from the other direction. They were both getting wound down from all the attacking. Peter knew they couldn't keep fighting, and so he pushed Adri past the corpses and swung mightily at the side of the cave they were fighting in. His blow aided by the strength of the fire god brought the cave down on their rear and crushed the pursuing spider hordes. What little of a force was left in front of them were easily dealt with.
"Why didn't we do that first?" Adri had a smile on despite now being trapped with the spiders in an unknown portion of the caves.
"Well I wanted to keep the way behind us open, when the spiders blocked that off, figured might as well choose the path with less of them."
"Less of them for now, they'll get back around."
"And we'll catch our breath and crush the bastards." Peter swung his hammer up on his shoulder and Adri appreciated how much more confident he was then when he was historian in their previous order. She needed that walking into the spider den. She knew what was ahead would make what was behind look like a picnic.
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