Best Served Chilled

Távaló's journey escorting a scholar to a remote, northern magical stronghold goes terribly wrong when an unfamiliar beast attacks after moon rise.

(This short story is a prequel outtake from my Elf Gate novel series featuring one of the side characters. I have not yet done a thorough consistency check with all 5 novels of the series, since this was just a side project for fun. It is subject to change later for a consistency check against the novels.)