Another one

Great Desert of Skulls

Alexis and Tarmen walked towards the waving merchant treading across the burning sands. The heat would continue rising until late afternoon, baking the landscape and everything on it like clay cooking in a kiln.

It become obvious what the man found pretty rapidly as the approached. For once the man was glad they were around and the attitude towards the pair seemed to had shifted slightly after last night's antics.

The man stood over another body. Another girl. This one older, of child bearing age, but still not an adult. She had not been here long. Hardly any part of her body was covered in sand. Blood stained sand under her body said she had died in the last day or two. No longer...

You exchange glances with one another. You see the slicing wounds on her back. Another body. Another victim. Another skull for the Great Desert.

You wonder how many more you will find on your journey...

And how long before you leave this accursed place behind.