The eye blinked.
A thick membrane dragged across its surface, spreading black fluid over the cloudy white before peeling back again. The pupil contracted until it became a narrow slit fixed directly on me, and the bite on my leg tightened with enough force to make my knee buckle.
Yuche caught my arm before I hit the ground, but that was becoming such a common occurrence today that neither of us bothered acknowledging it.
The cavern moved around us.
But it wasn't the ground that moved... it was the Devourer.
Flesh pulled away from the walls in long, wet strips as the thing beneath downtown Rongdu shifted its attention toward the five idiots who had willingly climbed into its stomach.
The cords covering the ceiling tightened, sending waves of movement through the black veins buried beneath its skin, while several mouths opened along the walls and released the same broken moan.
Then a deeper sound rose from somewhere beneath the eye.
"She…"
