Sienna swallowed.
Then she let out a soft, breathless laugh.
"I truly did not expect this."
With a thought, she recalled the rest of her undead into the Spatial Farm, the massive army vanishing one after another until only Gustave remained.
She turned to Mirella and Harold.
"Grandma Mirella, Grandpa Harold," she said, her eyes bright with excitement, "let's enter through the mouth."
Gustave now had two entrances.
One was the rear section behind the chest.
The other was the mouth.
Sienna had noticed the rear opening could be accessed by lifting a section of bone, but she had no desire to use it.
That area was too close to the beast's posterior.
Even in a world full of magic, there were some practical truths one should respect.
She was not about to make a grand entrance through what was essentially Gustave's backside.
*
The great jaws opened.
Rows of bone teeth parted with a dry clacking sound, and a cool breeze flowed from the interior chamber.
