Sometime earlier,
Her arm was reaching forward.
Her lips had parted, but the words refused to be uttered.
'Don't...'
Elisa grabbed her extended arm by the wrist and brought it closer to her heart as she trembled.
'Leave me alone...'
***
"Oh... I get it now. You're-"
BLEUGH-
The white-scaled Monster threw up.
And what exited its mouth, was a dark mass of,
Krch- Krch- Krch
Scamper- Scamper- Scamper-
"Ha... Haha... What the hell..." Mark chuckled weakly. "What the hell is that?"
What had exited his mouth was dozens, no, hundreds of dark insects.
They flowed out of his mouth and landed on the ground as if heaps of liquid.
Spiders, centipedes, cockroaches.
Hundreds had exited his mouth as he threw up.
'What the hell...'