Chapter 67 - Gael

Fighting the hydra was a lot like trying to wrangle a toddler into a special occasion dress. Two of us had to hold it down while the third took care of the business end.

At least, that was the experience that we had with trying to get Fati into dresses as a child.

Jareth had placed a deflection spell on us so that any attack that the hydra attempted to do, it reflected back at the monster. It kept us safe from direct attacks from the monster, though sometimes the deflected attacks would get a little too close to comfort.

Jareth didn’t need to hold the spell on us, so he takes up distracting the hydra while Hakeem, Meredith, and I start hacking at its neck. Things were going well until Jareth slipped on a rock and the hydra turned its attention on us.

When it aimed its attention on Meredith, Hakeem got in the way, slashing at its open maw. The problem was that he got the beast’s saliva all over him, the poison eating away his shirt and skin on his arm.

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