Wishful Falling

Over the hill, And run till your feet bleed

It had been a soild week since the ichor incident. Dantz was still missing, Tokk had to be buried, leaving Yoyin to take care of her farm all by herself.

"Thank you again for all your help, Onyx." Yoyin said, tossing a hammer into Dantz' tool box. What was left of the shed had to be taken down and turned into firewood.

Onyx nodded and pulled his shirt off. Using it to fan himself from this suffocating heat.

"I'll be sure to send you all a nice big wheele of cheese whenever I can."

His eye lit up at the thought of eating fresh,goat cheese. Apparently, one of the families had come across a new recipe. Hylian tomato pizza was one of his favorite dishes to eat! If he could get his own wheel of cheese and finally get those tomatoes to grow, he could make his own foods!

She'd even slid him the recipe!

"Ah, I'm so sorry to ask this of you since you've helped me so much, but do you think we could go... you know? Visit Tokk?"

After finding his body in their home. The place was deemed unfit to live in and closed, at least for now. It was awful just thinking about it. Not to mention, Dantz was still missing.

He didn't want to leave her alone. Tossing his shirt over his shoulder, he waited for her at the edge of their property. She darted off to grab a small cluster of flowers and jogged to catch up to him.

"I still feel kind of sick, even after throwing up that nasty black stuff. What about you? Feel gross on the inside still?"

He turned his hand left and right. His body was still recuperating, but he felt more or less the same.

"Hm, maybe it's just me then?" Walking through the grave yard. Yoyin let out a heavy sigh," It's sad, you know? He was a good man, he was family, you know? I just can't... I can't believe.... What the hell!?" Yoyin dropped her flowers and ran over to his grave.

There was a massive hole. Like something how climbed out of his damn grave.

Onyxs' jaw dropped as the two rushed over to the now empty grave. She fell to her knees and started digging into the dirt and found nothing. No body, no limbs. Not even an article of clothing was left!

"Whoever did this is gunna pay!" She sniffed, hands and knees covered in dirt.

Onyx didn't know what to do. Someone had grave robbed them! But it wasn't like Tokk was a well-off man! So, what could possibly be the reason for doing so? Did someone do this to prove a point? Was it money? Or did a monster smell the fresh corpse and dig the body up?

Looking around the area, he checked for footprints. There was no sign of something being dragged either. No wheels or hooves, nothing! The dirt was completely undisturbed and - wait.

Falling to his knees, he got at eye level with tpihe dirt.

Footprints.

They were hardly there, but he could see the outline of feet. He followed them till they reached the woods and he stopped.

The village was at the edge of the continent. The only way for anyone to get out is by traveling through the woods. The nebula mountain range was way too difficult to travel by normal means. So either the corpse was still in the village or some monster had unburied him. Wouldn't be the first time monsters ate dead bodies.

Nyx paced the area a few times. He wasn't willing to go in, not without a weapon. He could see a few deer in the shadows deep, deep in the folage.

Heading back to the grave, Yokin had already brought back Thadd, the village guard.