The scream that finally erupted from the young hunter was no longer human.
It was a guttural, wet howl that seemed to tear at the very fabric of reality, a sound so unnatural it would have scratched the eardrums and induced madness in anyone still alive to hear it.
He screamed with such savage, involuntary force that his vocal cords literally snapped and tore apart inside his throat like over-tightened guitar strings. The audible, piercing scream abruptly turned into a sickening, bloody gurgle and a wet choking rasp as his throat filled with his own boiling blood.
But the horror did not stop at the destruction of his voice.
The psychological and spiritual pressure imposed by the unbroken eye contact caused the boy's central nervous system to completely and irreversibly collapse. The brain, unable to process the cosmic horror, began sending frantic, self-destructive signals to the rest of the body.
