mistake running your mouth like that. What something like what you said tells someone like me is ‘if this thing can do that, then so can I’.” Underbrink felt his reformed jaw as light began flooding the basement. As the light entered the space, the slithering sound decreased in volume to the point it was little more than a whisper. Underbrink’s eyes searched the floor to find what looked like a caterpillar crawling along the floor a handful of feet away from him. 

“Well, well - you sounded so much scarier in the dark,” Underbrink scoffed as he picked up the wriggling insect. The caterpillar appeared to struggle to break free of his captor’s grip. 

“Unhand me! I am the one in charge here!”

“Oh...

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