Sleepy Fox Hollow peitsche

over elfie crept, and mahler spared another glance to see the expression that climbed the young one's features.
the snake rattled another warning, but it was growing more fatigued by the moment. and so the general struck, thrusting the animal down between two rocks and planting his full weight upon one of them.
the serpent trembled in agony to be so crushed, but soon succumbed, and mahler dragged it out of the charnel stones. "a snake," he told the boy. "if you are bitten, the flesh vill svell and bloat. more than likely, you vill die."