Charadask pulled the head off yet another high level demon and ate it with little relish, there was so much chewing for so very little brain tissue worth digesting. They'd obviously decided that defeating him was some sort of holy war and fresh groups of them continually interrupted his meditations by trying to kill him. True the fresh food was convenient and it was food that came to him, but the constant interruptions meant that work on the great dream catcher was falling behind.
"I promised the eternal." He said to the mutilated bodies around him.
Charadask noticed one of the bodies had a spark of life left in it, good ! Not much life, but enough to suffer for the outrage of putting him behind schedule. He grabbed one of its limbs, but decided ripping it off might speed up its demise. He ripped an arm off a dead Dredger demon, it was a good arm, a stout arm, it would make a good club.
"Bastard !" shouted Charadask, "you made me late in the work I promised to do for Sikush. If the dream catcher isn't finished they'll be serious trouble......."
He stopped ranting as he realised the target of his bile was dead.
"Bastard !"
He gave the body one more hefty blow and then started to meditate. The web had to be just right, no margin for error, oh no. He began clicking his claws on the cavern floor while he meditated and rubbed the loose material off his rear spinneret.
"Now it will be perfect." He muttered to himself.
Lifting his rear off the ground he started to spin silk, fine silk, enormously strong silk. First he repaired the damaged section from the last attack, then he began enlarging the web. He was happy now ! Very few people had ever been kind to him, but he remembered a young Genova girl holding him tenderly and taking him to see the eternal when he'd been close to death and in so much pain, so much pain ! Now Sikush had told him there would be an opportunity to repay that debt.
"A Genova now converted to a dark angel," Sikush had told him, "she will have need of your aid. I will send her to you soon, very soon."
Charadask would be ready !
