"You made the shot."
At only a few words, Irene was suddenly alert.
Indoor duties that week required her and her group of apprentices in the library after their midday meal and then in the armory towards the evening. With the rainy season coming for them, it was an opportune time for the apprentices and squires to get better acquainted with cleaning armor, weapons, and shields and learning how to preserve them even when it was wet outdoors.
With no further explanation, the apprentices who had been there the day the pile of goblins was found in the forest had been tasked to look through books in the library about monsters and see if there were ever any other strange occurrences such as that. The scent, the peculiar grey or black substance, monsters and humans alike being affected by it—the list went on.
