The twitching continued unabated for a few seconds, before it finally stopped.
This made Raul feel relief, as this entire thing had been thoroughly creeping him out. The whole rollercoaster of emotions from where he had thought that he would die, to this stage where he was still kind of in shock, had resulted in him forgetting one very important thing.
The king had been the one who had changed into that thing!
Wait… Did that mean that the king had died?
Before Raul's thoughts could proceed farther down that lane, the Dragon actually… Vanished, and in its place, a man who was actually laughing to himself became visible.
It did so in the same way that Raul had seen before – it seemed to shimmer, and then it faded out of existence before being replaced.
