Chapter Three
I took a moment and looked at my surroundings, realizing I was inside a structure. My eyelashes touched the tops of my cheeks as I blinked a couple of times. The white light that had dominated my vision gave way to yellow rock and red clay. Cabinets lined the perimeter. Inside the crevices of the shelves were creatures the likes of which I’d never seen before.
There was a bird-like creature, tall as a giraffe with a neck just as long. Except it had a beak like a parrot and the wings of a bat. There were creatures suspended in liquid, too. A pink jellyfish with a fat, opaque body. Inside its body was a worm-like creature that had a single dark eye. There was a cephalopod with rainbow-colored tentacles, its eyes vacant as its appendages swayed in the liquid.
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