Meanwhile, outside the cave—just where the skeletal remains of the monstrous spider Kairos had slain lay—something strange was already underway.
The vast, grotesque body of the spider had already been stripped to its bones, the flesh long gone. Vulture-like beasts circled above and pecked at the leftovers, desperate to salvage anything they could from the corpse. They scavenged hungrily, yet they found nothing—just lifeless, sun-bleached bones that hinted at a battle long over.
But as the group of vultures prepared to take flight in search of fresh prey, something unexpected happened.
The bones... moved.
It wasn't a sudden, explosive movement that would have startled the scavengers—it was subtle, eerie. A twitch, a shift, like a skeletal muscle remembering how to breathe. The vultures cocked their heads, blinking their beady eyes, sensing something off, but it wasn't enough to scare them.
And then it happened.
