CHAPTER 1
Menelaus looks outside through the half-lid door and his eyes are flaming red. His head is pulled back as blood sprays from his neck. Dongo spits his chicken; Pompo grabs his spiked mace.
Atila shouts a battlecry "Close the door!" he kick a table as arrows pelt the mast. "Close that damn door!"
Lunge runs upstairs. The two icemen unsheathe and hold position. Kondlak hides. "Tis the orsenmen?" shouts Atila "Or the Rider?"
"Where's Lunge?" says Graz Hal
"Coward ran away!?" says Grim Don "Damn that cur!"
Something, like a metal rod cracking echoes beyond the door. And then chains are pulled from underneath and swung tight, and you hear then a scream thinner than a strand of hair!
Arrows pummel the outside of the door and some corpse gust attempts to burst in! What is going on? What is this sound? It is like a thousand men burning in hot coals, but they are stretched thin as a spool of line across a valley! And it is no mere sound! The very souls of the dead are bursting trying to burst through the door!
And then it stops...