Although he didn’t know what this monster looked like, Luther knew that Eric suffered the worst fate imaginable. The corpse didn’t kill him first. It played with him first. It kept him alive.
Soon, Eric's entire body was tucked inside the small hole in the water tank. All except for his head. The zombie didn’t stop there. His head was stuck on the outside and could not get in. After a few more tugs, the Otyugh became impatient. It grasped his shoulder with one hand and pulled at his neck with the other.
Eric seemed to know what was going to happen next. With his last breath, he wriggled and tried to make a sound, but he couldn’t.
He managed to free one of his hands and slip it out of the water tank. His hand was mangled and bruised, almost unrecognizable as human. Almost every one of th
