he found himself plunged into the storozh camp in kamchatka : myriads of undead skeletal creatures ambling around diseased , emaciated and murderous with hunger , crawling in a vast cesspool of the dead and dying and the sky was blotted out behind the high surrounding walls and his minds eye settled on the girl and followed like a spirit as she wandered alone , scampering to and fro , recoiling from the reaches of a swarm of bony , bloody members until she curled up into a dark corner and cried her eyes out , and the cries rose to shrieks to wake the dead .