Wicked lover
She grabbed Selene by instinct, and Selene pulled her into a protective embrace, shifting her own body between Taffy and the entrance.
The creatures stared with hollow, lifeless, blank eyes.
One of them crawled forward—and the moment its hand touched the soil inside the burrow, it sizzled.
Its arm rippled as if something was burning beneath the skin. Then it cracked, broke apart, and collapsed into ash.
The ghoul shrieked—a sound so sharp it made Taffy’s ears ring—as it rolled away in agony.
The others twitched and clicked, gathering at the entrance. Their shadows swallowed what little light remained, but none of them dared to cross into the burrow.