Jade: The Hybrid Mage
Its body doubled in size instantly, wobbling as it digested its meal before shrinking back to normal.
I recoiled, bile rising in my throat.
Then, I paid closer attention to the rhythmic swelling and deflating of the ground beneath me. It was truly like the steady breathing of a living creature. And based on the little I'd seen around me—like the insides of a large and long creature, I knew he wasn't wrong. My hand brushed against something hard lodged in the fleshy wall behind me—a rib-like bone.
'Gods have mercy!'
Klaus’s voice cut through my mounting terror. “Don’t worry about those awful creatures, Jade,” he said. “They only hunger to eat each other. Whereas we—”