Chapter Thirty-Five
“Is that a—” Felix starts in a horrified tone.
“Giant millipede, yes,” Ariel says, sounding choked. “And I don’t even want to know what the spiders here look like.”
“You might find out,” I say, staring at a bee-like creature the size of a helicopter that just landed on what looks like a giant fishnet between two dead trees.
“We should go around,” Felix says as the millipede picks up speed. “It’s coming right for us.”
In that moment, an entire horde of giant insects appears from the forest, including a spider the size of Shelob—the one that almost ate Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.
Itzel mumbles something unintelligible about square-cube law under her breath, but I don’t pay attention because that’s when the screech reaches my ears.
Or more precisely, my bones.
