#clawguard

Snoutscar, Clawguard overseer

“You’ll dig is what you’ll do, and you’ll dig hard, sun burn you! And you’ll be finished when I say that you are. Do you see?”

Above the mound

No light will shine

Upon the ground—

And from the deep

Where Old Ones sleep

Our Folk will creep

Without a sound...

No more to hide

And wait for night

No more to shun

The hot daylight

The sun will die

And you and I

Will upward fly

To hunt and bite...

The Sun, the Sun

The Sun will die

And dying slip

From out the sky

And in the black

We will take back

All that we lack

The Sun will die...’

Snapjaw, Clawguard

“’It’s Snapjaw here. He and some of my other fellows have been hearing strange things in the upper Catacombs.’

‘Scratching, like. It’s not right.’“

Scratchnail, Clawguard chieftain

“I see that you’ve started to hear the song of Vastnir. You’re a sharp-sensing little bug, aren’t you, starface?”

Crushgrass, Clawguard chieftain

“’I’ve got more important things to do than stand about jabbering with you scabby lot. Go on, Crushgrass, take your whimperers and their “scratching,” and get back to your tunnel. You’ve got no business here.’

‘And you’ve got no place to order me, Bitefast.’“

Bitefast, Clawguard

“Well, I’m the chieftain now. And I’m going to make sure you get what you deserve.”