The Eclipse Secret Child
As the two Alphas departed, Kaelen a streak of
golden-amber toward the spires, Koran a blur of silver-shadow toward the wastes, the first of the Eaters arrived.
It didn't fly, it simply manifested in the plaza, it looked like a cloud of sentient soot, ten feet tall, with a dozen spindly, needle-like limbs that vibrated at a frequency that made my teeth ache, it had no face, only a vertical slit in its center that pulsed with a dull, sickly green light.
It lunged.
I didn't move, I let the creature’s "void-limb" pierce the Eclipse Field around me, as the oily, toxic energy touched my skin, I didn't scream, I opened the "Void" within my chest and swallowed the limb whole.
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