The Ritual Ring

Torin's POV

The valley was quiet, almost too quiet, as I walked through the maze of corpses sprawled across the ground. They lay round forming a circular and weird sort of pattern, as if they had been arranged there. Whoever had done this wanted these bodies found and I wondered why. Was it to make others scared? To run for their lives and be careful?

The air was thick with the stench of rot, for