CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
“Do you like it?” said Isaac. He swept his arm behind him. “Beautiful, isn’t it? Though these men come from different races, different countries, even different time periods, I have managed to unite all five hundred of them under my benevolent rule. See how they smile with anticipation of the day I have promised them?”
Disturbingly enough, all of the prisoners were smiling. But they weren’t smiling because they were happy. Their smiles were like the smile of a hyena just as it was about to pounce on an unaware zebra in the plains of Africa. They showed their teeth, and even their teeth didn’t look quite human. I felt less like I was looking at an army of humans and more like I was confronting an army of demons, just like Lord Raith’s old army, except this one was someh
