The Clock is Ticking (Part Twenty-Three)

Prompt: Fifty-four  |  Genre: Fantasy  |  Word count: 120 words

“She’ll be safe with her, right?”

“You’ve asked me this fifty-four times already!”

“Fifty-four?! That’s just ridiculous!”

Raven shrugged.

“Maybe three, or four...”

“Shhhhh....”

The horizon turned gray. Slowly, the gray carpet moved closer. A pair of glowing red eyes flashed at its forefront. Pinpricks of red flickered into life across the carpet of Thralls.

***

“You’re beautiful.”

Spider shivered. She looked down at her human hands, “I hate this form! You could do so much more with eight legs!”

Runa screamed.

“You don’t need to scream! Eight legs are not scary.”

Runa huffed and screamed again, “My baby... she’s coming!”