The dim, yellow light flickered in the night wind, casting indistinct shadows over everything around the pit.
It was as if countless eyes, hidden in the darkness, were spying on their every move.
Inside the pit, two humanoid monsters that looked as if they had been flayed alive stood rigidly still.
Their bodies were stiff and twisted,
like fiends that had crawled up from the depths of Hell,
forcibly bound to this small patch of ground by some evil and mysterious power.
Their chins were raised, their hollow eye sockets like two bottomless black holes,
exuding a bone-chilling, deathly silence.
Blood oozed from within their sockets, trickling slowly down their ghastly cheeks.
It pooled on the ground in a dark red puddle, filling the air with a nauseating, metallic stench.
They just stared intently at the people standing at the edge of the pit,
their vacant gazes carrying a kind of invisible Curse that made one shudder uncontrollably.
