"What did the skeletons do?" he shook his head in disbelief. He wasn't ready to fight a giant.

Jay glanced at the exit to the room. A river of knights still flowed from it, charging over other corpses of their own kin. There was no way he was getting through.

"Think." he told himself, "The root carries brown-gray liquid now… I thought the white stuff was being fed to it, but could it be… that it kept it suppressed? The brown liquid… If this was my experiment, I would put in a failsafe. Poison? I can only hope they did." he thought, placing a great deal of trust in his skeletons.