The Swamp Harrier

A few days later.

The morning light shined through the grey drapes that hung up outside the cave entrance. The light woke Nightstrike up from a good dream. He slowly opened his eyes and stood up from the leafy bed.

He was alone, but it didn't scare him at all since Dreadmar and Redlash had to go and leave early to patrol further on the outskirts to look for signs of hunters or to remove traps. They would return at midnight.

He felt the cold air on his body, and he had to get himself ready. Nightstrike got up and put his clothes on. While doing that, he noticed a strange smell. He ignored it, thinking that it wasn't that important.

When he finished, he went ahead to get some fresh air. He removed the drapes aside and walked out.

He inhaled the fresh air and exhaled it. He began to walk around the area he and his friends had to stay in for a couple of days.

As he looked around, he noticed a bird perching on a rock. Its head didn't face Nightstrike.

Nightstrike looked at the bird for a while when he suddenly noticed something that the bird had under one of its talons. Redlash's dagger. Redlash uses that dagger to cut meat because he was afraid of getting blood on him.

Nightstrike had no clue how that bird got the knife. Then he senses the same smell that he sensed in the cave. The smell came from the bird. Nightstrike stood there trying to make sense of how this bird got the knife. After a minute of thinking, he concluded that the bird must have somehow flown into the cave while he, Dreadmar, and Redlash were asleep, and must have picked up the knife and flew out from the cave. Though, he didn't conclude why the bird would do that.

Whatever he had to take the knife back or else Redlash would get mad at him.

He took a step forward, but that seemed to alert the bird to turn its head around to face him.

As they looked at each other, Nightstrike was a bit surprised by its appearance. It didn't look like any other bird he had seen. But as he looked more at it, he saw that it looked like a swamp harrier. This was weird, because as he and few other swamp people know, swamp harriers live in the south and west side of the swamp kingdom, and not the north side.

Nightstrike had no idea why this bird was here, but he did know that he had to get the knife back from it.

To be continued.



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