Ouroboros Spine the limbed and headed machine of pain

He was blind to the child who followed.

Perhaps because he was not used to being followed. So much of his life was now lived within the small confine of the ulaq, he sometimes forgot he was in a place with many.

So it would only be when they were too far from the dens for Makan to seek frantic shelter, that he would realize he was not alone.

It was a shadow.

A shadow with a viridescent gaze.

Makan's body threatened to crumble beneath him at the mere sight.