—Mira
I swallowed hard, trying to keep my voice steady. "There's got to be at least thirty of you up there."
"Thirty-seven, to be precise," the young man corrected me, a note of pride in his voice. "A cozy little coven we've got going here."
One of the boys in the trap, who had been oddly quiet until now, finally spoke up. His voice was shaking with fear. "W-what are you people?"
Mortimer turned to him, revealing gleaming fangs as he smiled. "Isn't it obvious, you fool? We're Wendigos."
Wendigos? I had heard my master mention them a couple of times in his tales. But, I hadn't seen one until now. And they sure did look more territorial with other species but less to their kind.
What I knew about them was that they were born from the sins of human greed and desperation, creatures that were once people who succumbed to the taboo of cannibalism during harsh winters.