'...Fucking hell. It looks as disgusting as it does in the books...'
Its hide looked like layers of wet stone fused with raw meat.
Thick segmented plates overlapped each other from head to tail, each one the size of a large shield, colored in dull shades of grey and sickly brown.
Between those plates ran thin seams of softer tissue that pulsed slowly, expanding and contracting with the creature's sluggish breathing.
The head rested near the far side of the chamber.
If it could even be called a head.
There were no eyes.
No nose.
No features that belonged on a normal living creature.
Instead, the front of the worm ended in a massive circular maw that looked less like a mouth and more like a tunnel carved into flesh.
Rings of jagged teeth spiraled inward along the inside, dozens upon dozens of them, layered like the blades of a grinder.
Some were broken, and others were stained dark with what seemed to be old blood.
Ckrr... ckr...
