About a mile away, Kadrek smiled as he spied on the Laichanan through a gap in a bush.

They were scurrying about tearing a fox apart in their great maws, snarling and growling at each other.

Kadrek unslung the heavy battle axe off his broad back and nodded at its comfortable heft; this hunt would be on his terms.

With a gleam in his eye he stamped his heavy boot, cracking a twig.