Chapter 451

• Wait. They were going to get food. Why come to the dens? Maybe some demons had some fruit hidden? Or... Mia forced down the rising panic surging through her, and looked around at the nearby demons as they all set eyes on her.
• So many alcoves, a sprawling network of tunnels, with dozens, maybe hundreds of remnants growing from and trapped between the stones. They squealed and screamed, and Mia looked away as a group of imps and grems, maybe ten, swarmed over a bunch of remnants and ripped them apart. Blood and guts and bones rained onto the stones. No one cared.
• "What's this?" a stranger said. A demon approached, a big brute almost as big as Diogo. If Kas stood up straight, he might be a few inches taller, but Kas remained in his comfortable half crouched half squatted position, one hand to the floor, one forearm resting on a knee.