The Pulse of Kato Whip: 05
Excerpt:
“Be quiet,” Kato Whip whispered, realizing how easy it would be to bring everything down. An ominous buzzing came from deeper in the cavern. Motioning for the earthquake to follow, he tiptoed forward to where pale egg cases and mummified remains hung from monstrous webs tenting the walls. The buzzing arose from countless gigantic flies ensnared in the webs. Then he saw it, a large crystal ball suspended above a luminous pool. Clinging to the underside of the crystal, and nearly engulfing it with its long thick legs, was a giant spider.
The tarantula? Of “serpent and tarantula” infamy? The tarantula that, along with the serpent, had laid siege to Lady Dusk’s castle? The tarantula that, according to all, was sinister to a turn?
Whatever, it seemed a pathetic creature. Its integument was devoid of hairs and worn down to the barest luminous yellow membrane, a shadow-play screen upon which the internal organs squirmed and pulsed. Kato squinted hard, glimpsing something else in there, a small figure disturbingly human in form that ran back and forth, back and forth, inside the stomach.
The adventure continues…
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