Seeing all the dead animals confused the shit out of me. Like there wasn't any obvious breach on the property there were just corpses. I mean clearly I didn't know shit about whatever was killing creatures in the first place, but this was even more confusing that just like a fence being broken down. The rancher who went by Bly (I didn't get if that was a first or last name), seemed just as confused.
"So what's killing them?"
"I was hoping you could tell me that." I could have sworn at the stupidity of it. Like I was a soldier for the most part, killing machines, what did I know about biological issues. Then again this was my own fault, but I didn't want to admit that. I looked around the yard at the various parts of animal, I couldn't even begin to guess by the random assortment of parts, why something would eat one part over another. It was seemingly random.
"Did it kill all of them?"
"Nah I have most of my herd safely away until you kill what's doing this." Optimism that I could kill what was doing it, I didn't exactly share it. I did notice he wasn't standing on the ground with me. Something I'm sure a more experienced killer of creatures would account for. I didn't, so when something grabbed hold of my foot, I knew for a brief moment I had made a mistake, well several really but yeah definitely a mistake. Wrenched under ground at super speed I didn't have much time to react, just went on instict, which was to use the cold fire. It was my go to "Oh shit something is happening." A gout of it lept from my fingers towards what had snagged my foot. The creature yelped and let go. I dug myself out of the dirt and gave a stern look at Bly.
"What the shit was that?"
"What's been eating my animals, it's what I brought you here to kill." I could have just screamed at him for stating the gods damned obvious.
"Maybe next time mention they grab at you from underground."
"You didn't ask." He was right I didn't, didn't stop me from being super angry at him all the same.
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