Chapter 13
The jackal staring down at him, its tongue flopping about through yellowed teeth as it panted, didn’t bother him as much as the appearance of Kali. He knew what he had to do. The only thing he could do. He waited for her to turn her head, to dismember someone on the side furthest away from him, and then he dived into the bones. He pushed his way into the pile until he was completely covered. With a small twist of his body he was able to watch Kali as her eyes, wide open and red with blood, stared directly at him. The demons too were looking in his direction, and the captives, and even the serpents were looking at the place in the bone pile where just a few skeleton parts covered his living, breathing body.
Then he noticed the sound of panting and the scratching of claw upon bo
