Warnig if you don't like blood or reading about stuff involving it then only read to the part when they get inside the inn otherwise continue if you don't mind.
"We should be close to a village now, and finally, we can rest there for the night," Tam said while guiding the horses to the torchlight that was illuminating in the darkness.
"What is this village name? I don't see it on the map at all." Levin asked while trying to search the village from the map.
"Is it a new build one that hasn't been marked on the map yet?" Tam asked as he was clearly seeing the town gates now in front of him.
"I don't know, but this map doesn't have anything at the spot we should be," Levin answered while watching the closing village.
"Something feels yummy. I don't know… What is this feeling that I'm currently feeling?" Elvire was puzzled. Something was pulling her towards that village like a moth to the flame.
"Maybe you are hungry, my sweetheart. Don't be shy as we still have food with us," Jaana said while giggling about Elvire's behavior.
"Ohoi traveler! Why are you approaching our village? Don't you see that the gates have been closed for the night already?" A voice suddenly shouted from the top of the walls.
"We are just humble travelers seeking who are seeking a place to spend the night, and we will leave in the morning," Tam answered while trying to see the person on top of the wall.
He could only see some ghastly figure that he suspected to be the gatekeeper.
Suddenly the gate opened.
The gatekeeper shouted. "Come in and continue straight about fifty meters, and in your right, you should see an inn."
When Tam had gotten in, the gates immediately closed, and everything was eerie silent.
No noises were heard at all like everything was dead, and they were right. If they had seen around, they could have noticed that the ground was full of white things that were bones.
Aside from that, there were those who hide in the shadows, waiting for the best time to strike.
"Hehehe again, we can feast this night.
We only have this chance in ten years, so let's not waste this one." A ghastly figure said, watching the new arrivals with evilness.
"As I'm the eldest, the girl is mine as her meat will be the most tender. You can get the rest." A another ghastly figure said.
"Let's not fight now as they are just going to the inn. We have to play our time perfectly and wait when they are asleep."
Another ghastly figure said.
While this was all ongoing in the hidden part of the village, Levin and his group were oblivious and just trying to rest for the night.
"The soaring Duck Inn? I guess this has to be the inn the gatekeeper mentioned to us." Tam said while stopping in front of the inn.
"Can I help you guys?" A younger man came out from the stables.
"I woke up to the noise and saw the estimated customers here. Let me take care of your horses and carriage, and you go inside to the warm." The man said while waiting for everyone to get off the carriage, before he could bring it in the stable.
Levin headed inside first, and the rest was following him, and they saw a counter with a bell in it, and Levin started to ring.
"Oh, oh wait a moment, esteemed customers." A sleepy middle-aged man said while coming down from the stairs.
"How can I help you? Can I ask you not to wake up the other customers?" The man whispered.
"Oh, I'm sorry I hope we aren't bothering, but can we get a room for two or three?" Levin asked out from the person.
"Sorry, we don't have any rooms available with two or three beds now. We only have four rooms with one bed available, and all of them are across the inn." The inn owner said while looking apologetic, but in reality, he was smiling inside.
"If we don't have other options, we will take those rooms then." Suddenly there was a shrieking noise coming out, and the inn owner cursed his friend's hastiness.
"Tam, can you go and check out the horses if they are spooked out of the new environment?" Levin asked from Tam, and just when Tam was leaving,
The inn owner said, "Don't worry, my stable hand is well experienced. You can leave it with him, and he will take care of it." While he flashed a smile at Levin and the others.
"Horse meat.. Horse meat… How long has it been when I last have gotten to eat horse meat?" A ghastly figure was singing inside the stable.
It was on top of a blood bath. There was a horse that has its neck bitten off and bleeding to the ground while others were eating the chunks of its meat.
The second horse was still alive and trying to fight against them, but it was held down by force mightier than it.
Its neck was then suddenly sliced open, and it went silent again.
"Idiot! I hope the customers for this night won't come and check this out. You didn't kill the horses first and let your hunger take over yourselves!" Another ghastly figure said while eating the first horse's whole leg.
"But it has been over ten years that we last eaten. You cannot blame us." Another one answered to the ghastly figure.
"Still, you could have done it much cleaner and killed it first." The first ghastly figure answered.