Chapter 185

Mia's POV

Together, we watched in silence as the world around us seemed to warp and shift, reality bending and twisting in ways that defied explanation.

I had a feeling I had experienced this before somewhere - and quite recently too - only, perhaps, a different 'flavour' of it as it were.

Do not ask me to explain - I am well aware how absurd that sounded.

Then everything seemingly snapped into place, the world itself apparently having decided to reinforce reality. I gazed up at the sky, and my breath caught in my throat as I beheld the monstrous entity hovering above the forest. It defied description, a grotesque amalgamation of twisted limbs and alien appendages.

The creature's body was an oval mass, pulsating with a sickly hue that seemed to shift and morph with each passing moment. Three pairs of spindly legs extended from its underside, each ending in jagged claws that twitched with an otherworldly energy.

From its grotesque mandibles hung a network of sinewy threads, each one