Title: The Thing That Slays
(The creature looks confused and hisses as the eluctuant spreads over its body and takes effect. The specks on its body grow into large gray patches that form patterns and the thing throws its beak back and screeches and hisses louder as bubbles swell on it. Then it droops limply, lifeless.)
2 thoughts on “The Thing That Slays”
Fan of Most Everything
Oh. That is quite the reaction. I know life is Hobbesian on this world, but that’s a particularly nasty way to go.
JJA
Dungeon monsters don’t usually have easy lives, or exits therefrom…
In a bleak alien landscape, two creatures raised from birth to be each other's enemies decide to think instead. One seeks Botaram, a place of high ideals and austere beauty; the other seeks to protect Botaram from being defiled by creatures like the first. An uneasy truce is formed amid heartbreak and broken ties, and through the ashes of their world they search for a truth that may no longer exist, abandoning friends, honor, and perhaps their lives… or worse.
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