"Don't do that–!" Vandread yelled.
"Huh–"
He was perplexed by what the man was warning him about, but he realized it the moment the light gave off from the flame; unintelligible growls and murmurs echoed from all around.
It was out of the corner of his eye that he saw it; something like that was so otherworldly and unknown to him that it made him freeze as he failed to register what it was: a stone, like the endless amount in the ravine, sticking in the mud walls, shifted into the form of an unsightly creature.
As the stone morphed, the creature's complexion was the same as the gray, rigid stone for a moment before becoming a dull, bleached red; its skin was covered with boils and scabs, layered with stringy hair that seemed to cover it from head-to-toe.
It had an animal-like face with a snout and buck teeth, along with beady black eyes, but a humanoid body of a similar size to a human child.
Is this a kobold?! He realized.
