I saw the High Queen moving her hand, to push all the smoke obscuring the view of the bottom of the crater, just as I landed on the ground, very close to the edge of the hole.
I have to confess, that I briefly looked to check what was there, and I noticed a dark shape. It was pitch black, laying directly on the rocky surface. It reacted to the disturbance picking itself up, slowly. It was more or less human-sized but had very thin limbs. Moreover, it seemed to be very slow, like it had all the time in the world.
This view made me stop. I know that in the middle of a battle such behavior should be called reprehensible, but I wasn't the only one who put a hold on taking any action. Ixa did the same, which surprised me very much.
She watched as the creature slowly turned around, and opened its eyes to look at her.
