234 Stranded In Time (4)

One thing about the desert: it's scorching hot during the day, but it can get freezing at night. It was the cold that woke me up. My nose stung as I got up and looked around me. For a while, I was expecting to wake up in that vast, endless labyrinth. Instead, I found myself lying next to the soft rock in the middle of Yanoku's slums. 

It was so cold the blood on my nose had frozen. I felt a cold chill down run down my spine as something breathed against my neck. I slowly turned to see the ghastly face of a wraith staring back at me. Its dark, hollow eyes gave no indication of what it was thinking. Its gray skin was so stretched and ugly to look at it made my stomach churn. 

It also growled, reminding me that I was starving. Two more wraiths appeared around me, popped up out of thin air actually. They growled with low voices as they floated in the air. Their hollow eyes were fixating me.