Black Mountain

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Once again, thank you to Nicola O’Shea, Cate Paterson, and Samantha Sainsbury for all the guidance and advice. Many times I have been asked: ‘does professional editing make a difference?’ My answer has always been: ‘Only 100 per cent of the time!’

The creature screamed as the arrow punched into its neck. Ripping it free, it turned to roar in frustration. The wound was deep and bled heavily, but the sticky blood quickly froze on its coarse, blunt fingers.

The small ones were coming fast, sending more of their arrows flying through the air. The creature roared again, wanting to rush back and fight, to crush those small, loud man-things down to nothing. But that would mean its own death, and then the end of all of them. There were now barely forty members of the group remaining, and some with young; they would be slaughtered. The leader snorted and drew its clan higher, moving quickly now. When it looked back briefly, the man-things were a crawling multitude that whooped and ran and hurled their sharp sticks.

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