Chapter 30: Attack of the Gnomes!

"Wake up!" Durri roared.

To his surprise and admiration, both Hudson and Shudon sprang from their bedrolls in mere moments. Shudon stumbled upright, looking still half-asleep, but Hudson burst up, sword in hand, like the world's most violent groundhog.

"Where are they!?" he bellowed. "Show me the enemy, that I might hit them repeatedly!"

Durri pointed toward the approaching flying figures. "I don't know who they are, but—"

Hudson let out a piercing shriek of a battle cry, then squatted and leaped eight feet directly upward, swinging his greatsword wildly around him.

He fell back to the ground.

Durri frowned. "You can't see them, can you?"

"Give me a break," said Hudson. "I just woke up!"

Shudon emitted a green glow as she finished invoking her shillelagh magic. The glow expanded, seeming to shift the lighting of their surroundings to make objects more visible in the darkness.

Hudson laughed. "Gnomes riding giant bats! Never fought them before. Away!"