Everyone froze. Hands on their weapons, ready for anything. Then out of the shadows leapt shapes and sizes of dark malformed creatures, raking and clawing.

 “These are not wisps or shadows.” Eldrek yelled as his axe hewed off the heads of two in one fell swoop. “At them, slay them all before they get you.”

 “What are these things?” Madora screamed as one lumbered her way. An Alvaine arrow through its head brought it down at her feet.