“What are you doing with Needles?” Samuel asked, cutting off whatever Elena was about to say. He didn’t want Skelly focusing on her, as she already looked worse than he felt.
And he felt like hammered s**t.
“The priests of the minor gods of this world can bring the dead back from the void,” Skelly said, dropping Needles in the center of the chamber. “I can do something similar… only he comes back better than when he was alive.”
“Sometimes dead is better…” Samuel muttered. “I swear, you are just one trope after another, aren’t you, Bone Daddy?”
Skelly clacked his teeth. “Silence.” He turned and knelt by Needles broken body. “Come Mother, awaken one of your children… he seeks to serve!”
As he spoke, the writhing intestine serpent within him coiled and stretched along his outstretched h
