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THE BLUE FEATHER
soon, as he was preoccupied with nocking arrows and was only
alerted by the sound of Ronú’s shot impacting the diving beast
behind him. He gave Ronú a thumbs up, and went back to
launching shafts.
The growing pile of dead beasts on the ground below was
getting so large that the remaining Gigantoraptors were seen
running into dead bodies trying to get to the humans. Bardala
then slowed the other flying beast with her powers. This time it
was Jonathan’s clean shot that downed the remaining airborne
attacker, driving deep into the creature’s throat with a single
fatal arrow. It fell in a death spiral out of the sky to join the small
mountain of dead carcasses on the blood-spattered ground. For
another long twenty minutes more and more furious
Gigantoraptors charged frantically out of the deep, dark forest.