Strixes

Evelyn XXI

Evelyn XXI

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Thirty Years Ago

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When the beeping sounded, Seth started before me. He sprinted into the snow-covered mountain, right up the face of it. "Come on, Captain Lescheres!"

He sounded so sure of himself. I took one last look at the foreboding mountains and I followed after him, the other three team members behind us. "Don't go too far, Seth! We still have no idea what we're going to find!"

"We know we're going to find spiderwebs!"

Given that it was the only thing the scouts reported back, that much was obvious. Lights flared to live around the mountains. Every team was making an incursion.

The snow crunched under my feet. The freezing wind battered my face. I was shivering in the armor. To think I could be in my nice warm apartment right now, but instead, I was throwing myself into the freezing snow.

As we scaled the mountain, the snowstorm started picking up. The wind was howling as snow swirled all around us. The white snow was so thick I starte