Chapter 50: Chapter 49

I don't really know what happened, I just know that, one moment there was blood and pain, and the other a blinding flash with a wave of heat and the smell of burning flesh the next.

The unhuman creature lets out a shriek of pain and holds his face in his hands, coiling back into the veil of darkness before I could see what had become of him, but I had no time to ponder what had just happened nor try to put two and two together as to what matter of creature had just assaulted me, the sulfuric smell burning in my nostrils, for I see my opportunity to escape when, as if having their strings cut, the undead skeletons fall down on the floor with loud cracklings all over the cave, back to being a simple pile of bones, hollow as the dull doll they were made into, played by the strings.

I run without looking back, the sound of my footsteps being suppressed by his howls of pain and chain of swearing deadly promises of pain and suffering once he caught me.