Before He Wakes
A gargantuan shadow almost as tall as the trees themselves.
With the cracking sound of bones breaking, the trees begin to part, one of them snapping near the base and falling across the path and knocking down another on the other side. From the newly made gap in the tree line the creature steps into view. It seems to be made from the very trees itself. Large with spindly, splintering limbs, multi-jointed and numerous like a giant, wooden spider. The fat center of its body seems made of gnarled, bent branches and prickly leaves, leaves that looked hard and glossy, forming a kind of armor. Though Patrick can detect no mouth, the thing roared with the sound of exploding suns and toppling mounta
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