There was a chilling silence as something crawled out. Everyone stood frozen, watching the malformed entity squat there over the remains of what had once been a knight.
The air was thick with fear and the lingering, overwhelming stench of blood.
The creature hunched over on its back. By comparison it was about the size of a human child around the age of five or six. Its head was bald with a few strands of hair sticking to it. The bones of its spine were visible beneath its thin skin, and its eyes were inverted, facing the wrong way.
For such a monster the odd thing was its mouth. It was supposed to be serrated with monstrous teeth, yet instead it was toothless like a newborn baby.
What it lacked in teeth it made up for with long thin claws that glinted under the dim light.
Damon didn't wait for it to attack. His hands snapped forward and black flames erupted across the entire area.
