KELLY
Kelly and Travis crawled beside Jon as he pointed at the cavern floor. At first, she didn’t understand why Jon’s voice sounded so shaky. Something had him rattled, but what? Then she noticed the floor was moving. Only it wasn’t the floor. In the audience area in front of the stage, were hundreds—no, thousands—of creatures. They gathered in growing numbers like it was some kind of town meeting. As she studied them, she got goosebumps. Those things were the stuff of nightmares.
The creatures definitely weren’t human, but they weren’t exactly animals, either. Most of them had one head, two arms, and two legs like people, but there were plenty with extra limbs and extra heads. A few of them even had tentacles, claws, or long feelers, like a lobster or a cockroach. Their skin was scaly,
