Chapter 63

Alina: I watched in horror as the thing sitting on the throne moved its head to look down at me. Just like in my dreams, this monster was made up of only flesh and bones, but his condition seemed far worse. Maggots crawled out of the hollow spaces that were the eyes, staring out of a skeletal face. Muscles and skin hung loose on the exposed parts of his body. There was blood dripping onto the floor in a constant rhythm, and his clothes were drenched in it. But the most horrifying fact was the number of bodies that were scattered all around him. I tried and failed to keep the bile down my throat and ended up retching at the sight of half-rotten corpses of hundreds of men and women that lay scattered by the monster’s feet with their hollow chests. Their rib cage wastorn open like egg shells to expose their heartless bodies. “Your assumptions are correct, my lovely granddaughter.” Aaron came to stand behind me, pulling my hair out of the way as I heaved up my dinner. “Tuhin eats the heart