CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The sky beyond had darkened, and with the strange fog about her, looked an odd shade of green. The two demons, hellbounces who had been captured, faces stretched midway between humanity and monstrosity, gibbered in silence, mouths twitching. They couldn’t see her. They were otherwise inanimate. Eva froze, afraid her movement would attract notice.
What they were doing on the burial mound she could not fathom, yet it was clear they had tracked her again. The demons turned, exploring the surface of the mound, and Eva saw the tentacles. At first, it was a wriggling under the skin of the neck of the demon to her left, the end of the tentacle writhing wormlike, a buried parasite. Then she saw the thicker end of the tentacle protruding from the back of each demon.
She had neve
