Notes on Monster Hunting by Chad Retterath

Author:Chad Retterath [Retterath, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

“Nothing. Not even any sign of the body you found before.”

I squinted and leaned to the side to look at the hole.

Ralet blushed. “I was bored.”

“What’s Kully poking?”

Ralet looked over his shoulder and studied Kully. “Kully,” he shouted. “What are you poking?”

Kully looked over, waved, dropped the stick, and started walking to us. Groose got ready to jump off the wall.

“Groose, do not jump,” shouted Kully.

Groose crouched on the wall and looked down at the sand. “Is it because of my side?”

“Obviously,” I said. “Find another way down.”

He jogged over to some stairs and joined back with us.

“I think it was just a pile of seaweed. I didn’t want to touch it with my hand.”

“So you used a stick?”

Kully nodded.

“It sounds smart to me,” said Groose.

“Well, let’s head back. There’s nothing here.”

We found Skrale at the inn with a crab that had been freshly cracked open on a plate sitting on the bench beside him and a map spread across the table. I walked over with the squad following behind me like puppies.

“Hello,” he said as I approached. “Find anything down there?”

I shook my head.

“Maybe another squad will.” Skrale grabbed the plate of crab and lifted it up. “Everyone come join me.”

I sat beside him with Ralet on the end of our bench. The other three sat across from us.

“Anyone want some crab? I think I’ve had my fill of seafood.”

Groose’s hand was immediately in the air.

“Just don’t get any on the map,” said Skrale as he handed the plate across the table.

The paper map covered the whole table. A few colors covered most of the map and lines of blue and brown ran all over. The last map I had seen was of the county I grew up in. This map looked entirely foreign. Nothing looked familiar.

“What’s this map of?”

“Here. Well, this is the kingdom of Tullinbran,” he said, pointing at the yellow area that dominated the middle of the map.

Groose ate the crab as fast as he could with all of his attention focused on pulling the meat out. The rest of us watched Skrale draw lines and mark where we’ve been and where we are now.

“Here’s the forest with the wraiths. Up here near the river is Grendlehorn where the ornisect was. Even further up where we cross the border in the north is where we killed the gozzen.”

“It doesn’t look far when you see it on a map,” said Ralet.

“Do you have a map for anything before the gozzen?” I asked.

“I did, but I must’ve lost it a long time ago. I only found this map today at a store nearby. It might not even be accurate, but it’s something to work with.”

“So Geziksan is here,” I said as I poked the city on the bottom of the page. “Judging by how far the map shows we’ve traveled in Tullinbran, getting to the far east coast would take twice as long as it took us to get from the border to here. So where are we heading next?”

“We can’t go further south, obviously.

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