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Traveling east on the Risen Road, they find a strange creature - a hyena, foreign to these parts... and she's pregnant. Tav, as always, is determined to save the laboring beast, and deliver its puppies safely.
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Everything seeming to move in slow motion. Wyll, bellowing his challenge as Shadowheart leapt forward to face the attacking monstrosity at his side. Lae’zel pivoting, her attention drawn to another gnoll emerging from the woods. And Tav, being hauled backwards by Gale as the hyena's stomach bulged, and finally tore, spraying her with blood as the beast let out one last scream.But it wasn't a baby hyena that burst forth, and he realized with horror there had never been pups at all. Instead, a long clawed hand snatched out of the hyena's belly, grasping Tav around the elbow and digging in as Gale pulled her away, opening deep cuts in her arm. Her scream joined the hyena's, mingling with the mocking, cackling laughter of the gnolls, before the thing's monstrous head emerged from its dying mother's body. Already leaping forward, jaws wide enough to reveal rows of jagged teeth, to tear out Tav's throat.