Monster's Curse

Tame turned on his heel and started to sprint down the hallway. If the webs became thick enough, the heavy armor would sink into it and at least slow it down. Then he would have a chance to get through its offense and get at the seal. The only real alternative was rushing it, which would only end with him getting a sword through his chest.

As he came back to the area he had been in previously, creaks and clicks of the previous monster’s movements came in an abundance and he immediately put his hand upon his knife’s sheath. “Look, if you don’t want me to hurt you, I’d come out right now!”

Silence greeted him and he started to scowl. The longer the thing stayed in the shadows, the more likely he was to be pounced by the animated object and its master. Just as Tame was considering the use of a stone and his knife in the webs, the silence was broken. “I… I’m here, but I don’t want to show myself.”

“And why might that be?”

Another creak came from above, but nothing else. His eyes zoomed in on the spot as he walked into the middle of the hallway, his body tense for any sort of attack. A crack came from the rafters and for a moment he saw a spider leg show itself for just a moment. “So-sorry.”

A twinge of pain went through his body. “A-are you not proud of yourself?”

Instead of a verbal response, a long strand of webbing came his way and he had to jump back to be missed. But then Tame watched as more came out and the efficient bridge of webbing became a clump of useless webbing. A small whimper came from above him and he started to scratch his head and looked back. It doesn’t look like the armor is coming though, so maybe it just protects that door and itself. If that were the case, I might just be able to run past it. That, Tame’s eyes went further down the hallway, or I can continue looking into this poor prey.

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