"Ambush!" Luca yelled.
"We know!" I answered. "Back-to-back formation!"
At my command, Luca, Aura, Edo, Thom, and Thor pulled pack toward me, and with our backs against each other, we formed a tight circle formation that gave us a clear three-hundred-sixty view of our immediate surroundings.
The fairies that had jumped out of the sand were short, thickset creatures with skinny limbs armed with talons and grisly hair streaming down their shoulders. They had wide murderous-looking faces with bulbous red eyes and mouths filled with rows of fangs.
"They're redcaps!" Edo warned. "I hate redcaps!"
Edo called them redcaps on account of the pointed red caps on their heads that was the signature mark for an organization of highly-proficient goblin assassins known to work exclusively with the northern clans.
