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Alek had barely spared a thought for Yael since he and his sister had returned home from the conflict with the Alkidike extremists. They were about as far away from the strange new island as it as possible to be without venturing past the bounds of the known world, and he had more pressing matters to deal with here in Zena... at least until the invaders showed up.

Later he would hear that there had been more of them close to the city, but that day he only saw two. The first was barely a flash of dark armored scales between the trees, and Alek could only hope he was seeing things when he noticed it.

"Did you just... I think I saw something over there," he said to his sister, fingers tightening on his walking stick. He hoped he was hallucinating. That thing was huge.

"It was very big," he supplied unhelpfully, his mind rather stuck on that single track. Alek's initial shock subsided only slightly as he followed Kayin's gaze and saw the tracks. At least he hadn't been hallucinating.

"It looked like it had a hunched back, I guess," he continued. "Its head was down low. I don't know if it was sniffing for something or just built like that." He didn't move. "Should we get closer?"

Alek nodded. Usually he would have waited for Kayin to take the lead, but this time he decided to reluctantly show a little initiative himself.

"I'll go around that way. If one of us gets cornered, the other can distract it and lure it away." Even after his apparent display of bravado, he still hung back to make sure the plan was all right with his sister. It didn't help that it sounded a little foolhardy now that it was out of his mouth. What was he honestly going to do to distract a creature like that?