Spooky Halloween Excerpts, Part 4
Halloween is lurking just around the corner. Here’s the fifth spooky excerpt from Day of the Devourer. The crew of an unfortunate spaceship is about to make a deadly acquaintaince …
The dark hunter sniffed the air. It had lived in the gloom of this jungle for a century or more, living off the blood and flesh of the unfortunate creatures it managed to catch with its brethren. A terrible sound had awoken it from sleep. Its eyes opened and roamed around its forest home. The air smelled burnt. A thin haze of vapors hung in the air. It climbed slowly down from its perch, just enough to see what had made the noise.
There on the forest floor lay a large thing with wings. It had not seen one of these things for ages. Long ago, something like this had come down from the sky. Creatures—some kind of parasite—had emerged from inside it. They had caused some trees to fall and made square nests out of them. It remembered this burning smell. It also remembered the taste of the creatures. It had taken months to catch them all. After their strange nests were destroyed, the little two-legged things had tried to hide in the jungle, but it had hunted them with its brethren and eaten them all. It remembered the crunch of the little bones and the salty taste of the meat. It sniffed the air again. It could barely smell blood.
It hissed, calling to its brethren. Quiet clacking sounds came from some of the nearby trees in response. Its multiple hearts beat faster. The hunt had begun.
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