Bab 51: Chapter 51: Kratos Lamashtu

"I am Kratos Lamashtu." The drogge sounded like doom and death, but this creature sounded like fate and disaster, as if the end of the world could be brought about by his voice.

He motioned Simon forward and by the way Simon's footsteps dragged, she guessed he was under some compulsion. What was this strange being capable of? Kratos's head bent down quite a ways to stare into Simon's eyes. His body moved in a strange, sinuous, and, at the same time, jerky way. The way he bent was just wrong on any skeletal level.

"My children tell me your mind cannot be reached. Resist me. Walk back to the human female." He sounded a mixture of excited and scared, had that manic energy found among truly crazy people.