Blades Against Fear - Wandering Sword Short Stories

Coin is easy and duties are light protecting fat merchants on the King's Highway outside of Tonsaare. At least that was the hope the wandering mercenaries, Skarde and Belgeti. Now their paymasters are dead and a thing of dread stalks the pastoral hills under a cloak of fear. However, the two adventurers do not make such easy marks. How can steel and muscle defend against a creature of dread legendry? Only the brave shall overcome.
This short story first appeared in AnvilT: Iron Age Magazine #2.