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Chapter Forty-Eight ▏The Taken
My brain stops working. I can’t quite comprehend what I’m seeing. I’m shaking badly, but at the same time my body feels incapable of any kind of movement. All I know is that I can’t look away from the creature slowly crawling out of the sewers, its legs as thick as branches. Its face is pale and just . . . wrong.
It has eight eyes like a regular spider, black and beady and scattered on its forehead. Its hair is long and flowy, and I don’t know if it’s just me, or if it has that blurry, crawling quality that makes my skin prickle.
I can’t believe such a creature still exists, and I can’t believe it’s lurking here in the open. I can’t believe no one has seen it yet.
But that’s not true, because now that I stare closely, I can see mangled bones littering the sewer floor.
I reach for Hendrik’s hand, too scared to mind what I’m doing. I just want to feel someone next to me, someone a
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