Feast

The wolf leader was slain and the rest of the wolves were soon dispatched only three were left the rest were corpses on the ground. Just piles of dying meat on the ground still fresh as they slowly rotted on the gore soaked field. As the wolf leader died the remaining wolves perked their heads up knowing of their leader's death they had no interest in fighting a lost battle. They tried to run, though with little success the mantid was extremely fast and easily slaughtered any remaining wolves that tried to run.

A wolf that made it particularly far was able to break out in a half sprint before its head was cleanly lopped off. The vertebra connecting the neck was visible and showed no signs of damage the slash has cleanly slipped right in between the cartilage connecting the two vertebrae slicing through the neck and cutting through the spinal disk. The dismembered head made an arc through the air before rolling onto the ground.

With all the wolves dead the mantid simply gazed at Zi Xiang for a bit before starting to rub its claws together making disgusting clicky scuttling noises. It slowly approached him, as it moved its many legs forward row by row in an offputting insectoid manner. As it moved forward it seemed just slightly off balance tilted at a noticeable but hardly discernible angle it approached scuttling along the ground this its many large legs. Eventually, its legs stopped passing row by row the offputting movement ceased only a few feet from Zi Xiang.

The mantid stood above the dead wolf leader and started to tear it apart with its lower claws, which resembled a lobster's pincers. It grabbed and moved the torn up meat to the next claw which held it before moving it to the next each claw clicked as it moved the torn up meat along like a conveyor belt. Reaching its mouth the mantid ate.

The mantid didn't have much interest in eating rather it sort of just looked at Zi Xiang as bits of comparatively small flesh moved into its mouth. Making clicking noises as its mandibles chewed the meat that moved up its long ladder of limbs, that seemingly just brushed the flesh bits along up to the next in quick mindless motions.

Though Zi Xiang wasn't watching the insect eat he could only hear as it did so his eyes had never left the dead wolf's eyes he had completely froze. Not making any movement or even being able to look up his eyes were fully locked onto the wolf's dead eyes staring into its black pupils. Occasionally the eyes shifted a bit from being proded by the pincers digging through its stomach.

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Zi Xiang's heart was beating so strongly that he could physically hear it and feel it moving he could count its every beat with perfect clarity. Even feel his blood pumping from his neck. It felt like his whole chest was contracting every time his heart beat. But he could only look into the still eyes of the wolf, he felt the compulsion to look up but couldn't.

Eventually, the Mantid stopped, it simply stood around.

Slowly it moved its largest pair of pincers down, only a few quiet clicks could be heard from it as it steadily descended. Like a hand slowly moving towards a fly to squish it. The claw slowly descended. With it came an invisible weight so stifling it could suffocate. Quietly a strangled uneven breath wheezed from below the claw. The claw had reached just a few inches above the dying breathing. Before it opened its claws and callously moved its claws around the origin of the breathing. Then it clamped down not quickly like an execution rather slowly so painfully slow. It moved centimeter by centimeter closer and closer to the raving breathing inch by inch until the breathing turned into screaming, mutely screeching for life.

Snap.

And just like that rose a nauseating irritation, like rising goosebumps stuck under skin. A quiet scream that couldn't be heard.

Flies

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The Deafening Sound of Flies.