Jaws of the Deep

In the midst of combat, I couldn�t help but stop to gaze at the beast. Fierce and bloodthirsty, it also had some sort of infinitely seductive quality. But it was as if it had sensed my gaze: it turned towards me and stared straight at me with its bright red eyes, burning like hot coals. This was not the stare of a damned one; this was the look of a demon. When it opened its maw, the mask of steel opened too for an instant, and I saw the very mouth of evil gaping wide to swallow me whole. My head began to swim, it was as if a vice was crushing at my head and compressing my chest. I owe it to Spada that I did not fall unconscious at that point. It was his cry that pulled me from my trance and sent me back into combat "Do not look into the depths of the Abyss for fear that the Abyss will look back into you Antonio!"