Wow!

A greenish-gray mist hung outside the town walls, coiling around the perimeter like an ethereal concertina wire. Within the smoke, figures flitted here and there, and the villagers' eyes darted back and forth, desperately trying to track their movements.

Finally, they emerged from the gloom, wolf-like creatures with eerily human faces and four limbs looking like human hands.

Their human eyes glittered with feral malice, fixed on the walls that were keeping them out.

They prowled the outside perimeter, held temporarily at bay by a faint, golden light that covered the walls. The source of this power was a Golden Tiger Talisman that floated in mid-air, surrounded by small,...