Things Slip Through
The slithering sounds swelled, accompanied once more by that throbbing voice, which evoked primordial fears as each unintelligible syllable pounded against Gavin’s brain, over and over .
mene, mene, tekel upsahrin, mene, mene . . .
“What is that?”
The words slammed into him, turning his insides to jelly. He whirled on the boy, desperately shouting, “What is that?”
The boy stood calm and still, and somehow his voice echoed above the chanting. “That’s the Other. It has many names. The Destroyer of Worlds. Eater of Light. Crawling Chaos.”
Ice-cold fear filled his belly and his bladder twitched. “What does it want?”
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