"What do you mean they aren't men? What else could they be?" blurted out Caleb?
Embarrassed he'd kept the true nature of their pursuers from Caleb, Kai looked at the floor as he began to speak, "Well, it is said that they are embodiments of Morguloth's will; tireless immortal bloodhounds hell bent on hunting down their quarry."
Caleb went pale, "And you didn't think to tell me this when we were trying to distract them with fake footprints?!"
Kai began to to reply but then trailed off as he realized how ridiculous he sounded, "It seemed to work at the time..."
Caleb was watching the farmstead, lost in thought, unable to make a decision, when he saw something that made his decisions for him: Two man-sized figures, standing in the middle of a courtyard between buildings, staring right at him.
