The cavern wall glitters, covered with gems: rich teardrop shapes.
As uncounted as the sweat beading your skin. Rubies?
The thought makes you shiver.
You step forward. Your lantern shakes.
The rubies scatter.
They are roaches. They flee your light.
All have disappeared all except one.
This one is paler.
Prouder. Antennae twitching in rhythm, as if counting time to silent music.
Twitching in time with your heartbeat.
About the book:
In a world beneath the world, a god of vermin grows. The more he grows, the more he wants to grow. He will not be satisfied. He will not stay away. Already his feelers have brushed the surface. Already his children sleep in your bed. Who will stand against his coming? How can he be stopped?
Reach of the Roach God is a system-neutral setting supplement, part of A Thousand Thousand Islands.
298 pages, casebound hardcover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches, debossed bookcloth cover, black ink on cream paper interior,