The skeleton feet tapped away across the wet ground and Jay drifted off to sleep. Lamp and Blue kept him safe, though there wasn’t anything out there that posed a threat.

The fog and the fire lights acted as barriers. Everything that ventured into the fog from the outside world would be injured with un-healing fire, and would need to flee or perish. Whether a high level beast or a curious glade deer, nothing would want a painful, un-healing wound - and certainly not a handful of these wounds.

The rain continued through the night, but Jay was exhausted from the journey and slept through it all, tucked away inside his swag.