In the graveyard, Riddick had finished fashioning a shiv from one of the countless bones of the gigantic creatures that’d died there when he heard voices. He should have heard them before, but it was as if the bones were moaning in pain all around him, trying to say something, and they’d drowned out the other sounds.

That could have cost a lesser being on the run his life.

“Is this whole planet dead?” The captain asked, close by.

Riddick tilted his head towards her voice; they were close to him now.

One of the kids said something in rapid Arabic.

“He asks,” the Holy Man explained. “What could have killed so many great things?”

Riddick could have added ‘in such a violent way’ to that sentence. He’d surveyed the titanic skeletons tinted by green lichen the moment he’d come across the graveyard, also trying to discover why gigantic creatures like these would fall in such great numbers and with such ease.

He’d discovered razor-like teeth marks slicing into the bones.

Carnivores.

So something had felled these giant beasts by the thousands, and due to the discoloration of the bones---they’d all been killed around the same time.

That, coupled with the fact that the whole planet in itself seemed dead, didn’t sit well with the murderer.

“Some…communal graveyard, perhaps.” The Holy Man announced, yet there were many questions in his voice. “Like the Elephants of Earth-That-Was.”

“Graveyards?” The captain was closer. “Or killing fields?”

Riddick smirked. She’d noticed the cut-marks, almost as if the bones had been hacked. She was beginning to redeem herself in his eyes.

“Long time ago.” The voice of the Blue-Eyed Devil, Johns, was next to the captain and the Holy Man, causing Riddick to move back into the shadows by instinct. “Whatever happened.”

Sensing movement coming towards him, Riddick pocketed the shiv he’d finished carving out of the bone and with a swift movement climbed up the skull of the creature he was in, hiding within the sinus cavity.

In seconds it would seem, o