black candles that burn at intervals along the path leading up towards the front of the building where a crude altar has been erected. Around

have bound his hands and feet, for has not great glory been bestowed upon them by his being chosen by the great master as the on

oness. The chain is padlocked to a steel bolt in the floor and the handlers move off to join those already waiting. The low growls from

em. Amos, now naked except for the skin of a lion, draped over his body, the head of the beast placed over his h

ou." The couple stands with their bound son between them, the man looks down at them with no emotion in his eye

his feet; a glimmer of a smile touches his lips as the feeling of absolute power fills him, the power of life

strains on the chain, low growls coming from deep in her throat. Amos approaches the altar and in one quick movement of the steel, claws slit the small boy's body open, his blood

on the small body on the altar imitating the feeding of a lion, he steps back and issues a command. From the shadows once more t

hey have inhabited the body of the lioness an

, feed" echo's wit

d throw the body down. She springs onto the corpse and