He gave up trying to count the ever-increasing number of beasts and concentrated instead on identifying species or breed. This was strange. The animals looked… not quite right. Some of them were downright sick, staggering in circles. Others showed bare skin through their fur, as if patches of hair had fallen out. Some had eyes that were nearly swollen shut.
As he watched, a large cat spun around. A smaller cat had wandered too close, probably because it kept falling over as if it were drunk. Was rabies a thing here in the spirit world? He didn’t think so, but some of those animals sure moved oddly. The large cat hissed at the smaller animal, then, with terrifying speed, closed its giant maw around its neck. With a dry crack, loud enough to stop the other monsters in their tracks, the larg
