[i]A quiet night...[/i]

Shan snuggled into her bedroll keeping those words inside her heart as her eyes fluttered closed and she fell into a restless sleep. Like most nights, she was plagued with nightmares of shadows and monsters. A dream where creates chased her, licked at her heels and wrapped smokey tendrils around her legs. In her dream she was never quite fast enough, unable to reach the destination that she knew she was running for. Unsure even what that destination was, but sure that it would be safe. Shan twitched, kicked and moaned in her sleep. Fear paralyzed her eyes shut, despite knowing she was asleep and wanting nothing more than to be awake.

Unbeknownst to her, Shan's nightmares were the least of her concern when a long, slithering creature decided to make the cave it's own hiding spot for the evening, to wait out the unending darkness. It moved slow and calculating, jerking and slithering, among the bags and belongings of the two humans. A loud, pained cry from one of the horses jerked Shan from her sleeping nightmare to her waking one, her own cry filling the cave as she felt the weight of some part of the long creature's body over her legs. [b]"Ailbe! Ailbe wake up! There is something on me! It's a beast, a monster!"[/b] Frantically she crawled her way out of the bedroll and away from whatever fearful thing awaited them in the darkness.