Survive

“So, what’s the plan?” Dakshana asked. She tested the weight of her spear in her hand.

“Survive,” Chadstone said, and the cave around them dissolved.

The world that emerged was - sand. Yellow sand as far as the eye could see. Dakshana was - armed with her spear, clad in leather armor, and standing in ranks alongside men. Men who were also armed with spears and metal blades like Chadstones and didn’t seem to realize she was a woman.

Men fixed on the gaze of - things thundering toward them. Massive buckets that rolled forward, smooth, on wheels - and drawn by horses.

“Attack!”