[Another shape, a form they do not recognize and do not comprehend. Its silhouette is humanoid.
Past experience delineates that confirmation is required.
And so they will confirm. They move forward, slow and precise and steady, one leg being dragged uselessly behind them like a deadweight, an impulse they cannot wholly shake. An impulse based on the phantom snap of bone and arteries that have long since knitted together after that forcible contact with rock cast from a hated man's hands.
Him. Him, him, him.
He was human, and still dangerous.
They must, also, ascertain this human's nature.
The expression on their shell's face is blank and lifeless. They draw close, close, closer. If it attempts to run, they will follow. They must follow.]
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Past experience delineates that confirmation is required.
And so they will confirm. They move forward, slow and precise and steady, one leg being dragged uselessly behind them like a deadweight, an impulse they cannot wholly shake. An impulse based on the phantom snap of bone and arteries that have long since knitted together after that forcible contact with rock cast from a hated man's hands.
Him. Him, him, him.
He was human, and still dangerous.
They must, also, ascertain this human's nature.
The expression on their shell's face is blank and lifeless. They draw close, close, closer. If it attempts to run, they will follow. They must follow.]