The words from Rowan touched something deep inside the mind of the Shiik, granting it a focus and a goal that its young mind clung onto, yet its fear of light and the sun was still primal, embedded in the part of itself that its new intelligence could not yet control, and it was still returning to the crater but more slowly.
The Shiik fought against its instinct, but the tools for such a battle were yet unavailable to it, and although Rowan could override those instincts, he understood that some battle needed to be fought personally, but he had no time for the Shiik to acclimate, their presence had been detected by the powers in this land and before long, an intense battle was coming for them.
