EDIN
“Don’t open your eyes.” I tell Saroya again and together we begin to back away from the voice.
“There is no escaping me.” It says suddenly from behind us and we spin around. So it is also capable of crawling relatively soundlessly.
I remember now. This creature is called a Mandrok. I berate myself for not realising earlier because it is one of the handful of sentient creature myths. A myth because it is supposed to be found only on old pages of no more significance. When books of magic were being burnt, books that contained creatures such as the Mandrok did not even make the cut of dangerous treacherous book. They were mostly characterised as famous fictions and the books were kept for entertainment and to warn children. The Mandrok is supposed to be something like the boogeyman
