The Beast's Ugly Wife
My mother’s murmur brought me back to reality, and I lowered my eyes to Cassian’s wound.
A horrified gasp escaped me before I could contain myself. I expected his thigh to be in tatters where he'd been bitten, perhaps even with the bone showing, as happened to Noah when he was attacked by the chimera. But that…
In place of his flesh, there was a black, thick, and viscous substance covering the wound. The smell was terrible, and it seemed to move, like hundreds of tiny black worms clustered together, trembling and digging deeper inside him, until they reached near his knee.