Figures moving through the growing dark and circling around their position. And there were at least a dozen of them closing in from all sides.
Myrenne dismounted quickly with this urgent look on her face. "We're surrounded," she said sharply.
These immediately put the rest of them, asides Aiden and shadow, on alert.
The creatures emerged from the forest slowly and revealed themselves.
These creatures had once been human, but corruption had twisted their forms into these monstrosities. Their pale skin was stretched thin over bone, and dark veins throbbed just beneath the surface.
Small horns jutted from their foreheads and temples and their eyes glowed with a sickly red light.
Some of them had claws instead of fingers while others had mouths that split too wide and revealed rows of jagged teeth.
Their movements were jerky and unnatural as if their bodies no longer remembered how to move properly, and they hissed and snarled as they closed in on the group.
