Edge around the Skunkbear
From Create Your Own Story
Perhaps if you are careful you can slip around it.
You slip through the shrubs around the creature, but clearly something about you – or what you carry – attracts the beast's attention, as it sniffs the air, its sharp teeth on display. But it doesn't attack. After a few minutes of this, you are on the other side, and able to continue.
The path leads down through another valley, and back up another hill. The sun is now just past its zenith and everywhere, a dusty heat rises from the baked earth. You begin to think about where you will stay for the night. But then you see the path runs into a small village, set into a hill.
Smoke rises from the stacks. The houses are well-set, with stone at their bases and thatched roofs of grasses and thick leaves. There is, unusually, more than just the one street running through the centre of town. But it is as though this place, once rich, has had its heart scooped away. Litter surrounds the buildings, and on the edge of the village are rows and rows of empty, abandoned buildings.
You continue your slow trudge along the path.
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