By the time the three of them arrived at the egg chamber, they found themselves at the entrance of a vast hollowed cavern, the walls of which seemed to curve inward like the inside of a massive, naturally occurring dome.
The cavern was shrouded in thick, pale webs that stretched across it from one side of the walls to the other, adhering to the stone.
Suspended within these webs were many clusters of enormous eggs. Each one was roughly the size of a human torso, their surfaces slick and faintly translucent.
Inside them, dark shapes moved slowly beneath the membrane. Some of the eggs pulsed from time to time, quivering with the disquieting rhythm of life waiting to come out.
Hundreds of them were in the chamber.
No, perhaps slightly more than that.
They were stacked up along the walls, all tangled up in thick webbing, which had layered itself throughout the cavern like some sort of enormous nest.
The sight alone was enough to make the entire place feel suffocating.
