As dust motes flew at Leon's front, the burning torchlight flashed off, revealing his hideout.
When he raised the dagger, its blade threw sharp reflections on the Syrs, but he pulled it back and walked into the shadows before the beings could turn their heads.
He waited for the Syrs' attention to drift from his side before continuing to sneak toward the hut at the center.
More stone structures spread outward in an arrangement so absorbing that Leon ended up at the very hut he had woken in.
Just as he stopped opposite the hut he saw Aurelian standing at earlier, two Syrs erupted from the entrance of a cave that didn't look like one. A place where the torches didn't dare throw their reflections.
At the horned beings' center was a humanoid lady doing all she could to set herself free. As soon as the Syrs managed to drag her to a burning pillar, they hurled her into the fire.
