An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Dustin was awakened by footsteps outside the tent at the break of dawn. He quickly turned around to get up and was watchful.

Soon, he heard Osley speaking. “Ms. Linsor, something bad happened!” Instead of barging into the tent, Osley stood outside to report the incident to Grace.

“W-What?” Grace slowly opened her eyes when she heard the commotion. She slipped out of the sleeping bag and slipped into her jacket.

She then asked, “What happened, Mr. Will?”

“When I was doing my routine check, I saw a lot of desert rats around our camp. I followed their trail and realized that the rats had destroyed our supplies!” Osley replied anxiously.

“What?” Grace’s expression instantly became serious when she heard that.

She quickly walked out of her tent and questioned in a serious tone, “Didn’t I arrange for someone to stand guard through the night? How did the desert rats get to our supplies?”

well. It was already too

much as

play it safe this time, she had prepared all the supplies needed for survival and hired a caravan of camels to transport

in, she even ensured that people were standing guard. She had no idea that she would wake up to a problem with the

the supply storage tent, she saw thousands of desert rats running around. Food, water, and

team were busy chasing away the desert rats. Nevertheless, these rats were

normally timid and careful. It was

to the sheer number of desert rats,

of the supplies she brought for the journey. If Osley

animals! How dare they invade our supplies! Kill all of them!” Osley yelled angrily. When they heard the order, the security

one after another, the desert rats fell into the pool

and started breaking up and running away. They were all gone in