`[STONE SLINGER]`
`[LEVEL: 58]`
`[HP: 4,800 / 4,800]`
Six of them along the upper edge, hunched, with a sling arm that came back further than an arm should.
The first stone came down forty seconds in and took a chip out of the route two metres from Ronan.
`[BLIGHTED THRALL]`
`[LEVEL: 59]`
`[HP: 5,200 / 5,200]`
And on the right-hand route, forty metres up, there was a group of five of them standing in a loose cluster and not advancing.
Above that cluster, four metres up and hanging in the air, was a mass of something dark.
It was about the size of a person, and it was not solid, and it was not smoke — it turned slowly, in on itself, with no edges James could fix on. And from the underside of it, thin dark threads went down and touched every single one of the five Thralls standing beneath it.
`[BLIGHTED THRALL]`
`[IMMUNE — BLIGHT ACTIVE]`
"There it is," said James.
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Finn tested it, once, because somebody had to.
