You step out onto the soft red sand and peer about cautiously.Here in the haze created by the overcast skies and the sea foam, you are sickened by what you see.
The shadowy forms of wraiths hover over your fallen comrades. These are the spirits of sailors and seafarers who were unlucky enough to wreck their ships upon this blood colored shore. As you watch, the moaning undead stoop over the fallen,reaching out with skeletal hands and ripping the flesh from their bones. You stand in terror as the undead consume the bodies of those you came here with, your friends and shipmates who the wraiths themselves killed only a short time ago.
You hear a small groan, a deep and heavy noise made from a living mouth. You turn your head away from the macabre sight to see one of your mates laying many feet away. The burly man struggles up to rest on his elbows and looks at you. You can see that his legs are shriveled, like limbs long dead. This is the result of the cold blade of these ghosts.
Looking at you with wide eyes, he calls to you. "You fool!" he screams. "Get the hell out of here!"
Out of the haze, a group of wraiths floats to him and stab their phospherescent swords into him. You fight back the urge to vomit as you hear his gurgling cries and watch his body decompose before your eyes. His final, desperate flail causes his hand to fall outward, his finger pointed straight at you.
The wraiths turn and look at you. You see the pale glowing spots of their eyes deep within their black cowls. With a cold, shuddering moan, they begin to float towards you. They raise their bony hands and hellish swords, meaning to do unto you that which they have just done unto the others.
Fear grips you. You stand frozen, eyes going from the small boat on the edge of the surf to the path back to the Valheru's lands.
You are moved to action by the fell voices of the ghosts calling you to join them. Seeing the fore-most of them coming within melee range, you break into a run, feeling the cold sword sweep down just behind you. Not looking back, you run towards...
...The Path
To your boat and away from this accursed land
Back to the inland path
