Reborn: Earth Online - Chapter 55 - 56: Eggs and babies

... t air clung to his skin, thick with the scent of decay and something else—something sickly-sweet and foul, like rotting meat mixed with the stench of disease.

The tunnel walls pulsed with clusters of slick, membranous sacs—brood pods. Inside them, he could see movement—writhing, shifting figures pressing against their organic cages, their tiny, undeveloped claws scraping against the translucent flesh. Eggs.

Hundreds of them. It was not natural for a rat to give birth like this bu ...