There were humans there, too - a pale-skinned, violet-eyed people who had traveled underground in the 1600s and built the stone city of Regalia. It was home to giant talking rats, bats, spiders, cockroaches, and a variety of other oversized creatures. He hadn't told anyone about this new prophecy yet and didn't intend to until it was absolutely necessary.Ī few months ago, right around Christmas, he had returned home from the Underland, a dark war-torn world miles beneath New York City. He quickly stuck it in the back pocket of his jeans and pulled his sweatshirt down to conceal it. Gregor released the top of the scroll and it snapped into a roll. "Boots has to go!" he heard his eight-year-old sister, Lizzie, say. In the reflection, he read the first stanza of a poem entitled "The Prophecy of Blood."Īs usual, the lines made him feel sick to his stomach. Then he slowly unrolled the scroll and held the handwritten side up to the glass. Gregor stared in the bathroom mirror for a minute, steeling himself.
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