Chapter 167

The creature usually avoided sunlight. Any bright light made its head burn on the inside and shot incredible pain through its body. The forestation had been so thick where it had found the last prey, however, that there were huge areas where sunlight couldn't break through. And finding two targets at the same time had activated a signal in its brain that said These two. Take them.

The beast had no recollection of how it arrived at any particular spot, only that it had woken up hidden away in a tiny, cave-like hollow, protected on all sides by the abundance of trees and the thick growth of vegetation. Whatever was sending signals to its brain apparently deleted unnecessary information. The passage of time was immaterial to the devil beast so it had no idea how to register the length of time it had been in its hidey-hole.