In the fading light he sees not a huge bloody monster or a dagger-toothed beast adorned with muscles, but a thin figure that is already dead and just as terrifying. It has an entire city cowering in fear from its ruthlessness. It will kill Allan and enjoy it. Jibbawk waves at him, taunting him, as it moves forward. Allan tries to step back, but he can’t. Bugs fall off of Jibbawk as it moves. They crawl to catch up to it. As Jibbawk approaches, Allan realizes Jibbawk isn’t dark because of the growing night. It is pitch black because the bugs are beetles as dark as black holes. It has red glowing eyes that emanate a heat from within them like a volcano ready to blow. “I will have the key whether you give it to me or I take it from your dead fingersss,” Jibbawk says, reaching out for Allan. Its voice is hoarse, but steady. It feeds off Allan’s fear, breathing it in like pure oxygen. “Sss, I only want what I deserve,” it says. “When everything is taken from you by forcccce, is revenge not the only way to be whole again?”
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