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The last rays from the sun vanished behind the mountain peaks, leaving the small troupe to their own devices.
Maresh sighed and folded her arms, slumping against the trunk of a tree. "Do we waste the torches?" she asked Isan, the troupe leader.
He shook his head, lips cinched, brow drawn. "No. We wait for the moon."
The dusk settled, as if timing itself to add a mysterious edge to Maresh's story. A grin split on her face. Her eyes scrunched just so, and a mysterious gleam spread over them. "And then," she murmured, "Just as Reyn let his first footstep fall in the cave, a horrible shriek sounded! He fell, covering his ears just as-" she stood, arms open with her fingers curled at her sides as she took a half a step towards the wide-eyed child seated on the stone in front of her- "the shriek ended and he thought he could stand-" she took another step "- the dragon whipped out of the cave, snatching him up in her talons-" she lunged, gathering the child in her arms and pretending to gobble him up "- and swallowing him whole!
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