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I couldn’t tell right away and had to poke around the feeling for a moment before I could pin it down

"Jacob! Ahead or behind?" Eut-compass was certain, but it e was now visible all the way to the gate, and the whole length was deserted There was nothing there

"I don’t know!" I said

"Then keep going!" Eap than the near; we’d be off the pikes faster if we continued forward I shoved down my fear, bent and scooped up Addison, and started to run, slipping and wobbling on the unsteady pikes The hollow felt close enough to touch, and I could hear it now, grunting toward us from some unseen place ahead My eyes followed the sound to a spot in front of us but below our feet--on the cut-away face of the bridge, where several tall, narrow apertures had been carved into the stone

There The bridge was hollow, and a holloas inside the bridge Though its body would never fit through the openings in the stone, its tongues easily could

I’d e when I heard Emma cry out I dropped Addison and spun to see her behind ues wrapped around her waist and whisking her into the air

She screaue flipped her upside down and shook her She screaues slapped the underside of the pikes and ourlike ue went for Addison, and the third punched round, the wind knocked out of ue slithered around my waist and scooped s In aupside down

Blood rushed toand nipping at the tongue

"Don’t, it’ll drop you!" I shouted, but he kept on

Eue around her waist, the holloould drop her

"Talk to it, Jacob!" she shouted "Make it stop!"

I twisted to see the narrow openings through which its tongues had squeezed Its teeth gnawed at the stone slats Its black eyes bulged hungrily We hung like fruit on thick black vines, the chase "SET US DOWN!" I shouted--but what caain!" Addison said

I shutas I asked, then tried again

"Put us down on the bridge!"