Chapter 160

The beast crawled from its cave, sliding between the rocks, peering around to see if danger awaited it. Its sensors hadn't indicated any, but once or twice those sensors had been off and the creature had nearly paid for it. Now as the sun rose high over head, the desperate thirst for blood raced through its body again. Somewhere in its brain, whatever sent indicators to various parts of its body was signaling that it was time to hunt again. The big prey.

Blood!

The thirst for it, the uncontrollable need, was like a rampaging monster devouring it. The small creatures had settled immediate hunger, the need for flesh, but not the overpowering urge for the blood that only the specific prey could provide.