SHADOW AND LIGHT (CHIAROSCURO)

THE DARKNESS CREEPS IN

"Wake up! Wake up, damn it!" I had in my arms, the dame I saw in the shadows doorway, she was unconscious and hard of breathing.

We were in a tricky situation, “Wake up! Create the doorway! Otherwise, we die!” I smacked her across her face. She was still unresponsive.

Right this evening, we were on the edge of a grassy clifftop, pushed slowly to the very edge by a multitude of smaller, stunted green human-like earth beasts, earth beasts widely known as Goblins.

With their green skin, they faded into the grass, screeching and laughing. Armed with stone axes and wooden clubs, a few leapt from below the silage and attacked at random.

With the unconscious same in my arms, I stood my ground and fought back the green beasts, slashing and thrusting my rapier into their green bellies and thin necks.

But they kept pushing me back. “They just won't stop coming! Damn it!"

I was right on the edge of the cliff, only a foot away from the precipice and the plunging valley of scree below.

And then it