(This story has two endings. The story contains bursting/the preds being defeated, so be warned!)
 
 
The sound of her own heartbeat in her ears battled against the metallic sprays of coin and other wares as Nat ran to hide in the beasts’ lair. How did it come to this? She was following the plan exactly as they had laid it; flank the beast from all sides, surround and overwhelm it. But the plan had seemingly been a failure before it had even begun; as her elven companion was snat

(This story has two endings. The story contains bursting/the preds being defeated, so be warned!)
 
 
The sound of her own heartbeat in her ears battled against the metallic sprays of coin and other wares as Nat ran to hide in the beasts’ lair. How did it come to this? She was following the plan exactly as they had laid it; flank the beast from all sides, surround and overwhelm it. But the plan had seemingly been a failure before it had even begun; as her elven companion was snat