[dragoneyes]

Erchas sat just inside the entrance to the cave. Her long legs rested on the webs she had covered the cave with. She felt some vibrations coming from one of the webs that was just outside the cave, it felt like prey, small prey, but prey. She scuttled along the ground, all that could be heard of her was the faint tapping of her seven legs, her eighth having been lost in a confrontation with some Elves, along with two of her eyes.

She found he web, in it a flock of bats wer caught, most of them were still struggling to free themselves, though it was in vain. Erchas crawled quickly up the web and plucked them off one by one, eating them as she went for they weren't big enough to save for a later day. She then sat and surveyed her territory with her three remaining eyes but there was no more food around, the animals stayed as far away from the entrance as they could get, only the foolish came near and they soon became another morsel of food for one of the dark things which now dwelt in the Paths of the Dead.

Erchas retreated back to her small recess, not wanting to be caught out in the open. She pulled further in when the human that frequented the cave sneaked past, apparantly thinking she was out of sight. Erchas longed to taste human flesh as she once had but now she was longing for anything bigger than a rabbit. If she'd had her own way, that human would be in her store, or her belly. She knew, however, that if she killed the human, there would be a very angry spirit after her. The very thought of that made her quake with fear where she sat. No, she'd have to leave the human and wait for something else.

[ April 26, 2003: Message edited by: dragoneyes ]