Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

by Guillermo del Toro

Ahead, on a boulder in a clearing, he saw the same runic symbol he had spotted above the stone archway. The stone face was stained with blood that was black in places and red in others: old and new. He reached out and touched the symbol, and immediately he heard, as though originating in his head, a sibilant, raspy voice enunciate three words: throat—guardian—hunger.