The Stick Man narrowed his eyes as he looked up at the sky:
"Are you Tor?"
Hewitt replied:
"No."
The Stick Man said:
"I've never seen Xander like this before, so lifelike that I almost thought the Dustworld Serpent had escaped from the Underworld."
Hewitt said:
"Hayley is its sister, so it wouldn't be strange if she let it out of the Underworld."
The Stick Man said:
"Maybe, but it seems I don't know as much about Huginn as you do about Xander."
Hewitt laughed:
"It's just because Huginn can't compete with Xander."
The Stick Man said:
"It seems I have to introduce you to the most terrifying creatures in the universe."
As he spoke, the Stick Man's dark body grew in size, as if countless sharp spikes were expanding outward from within, swelling grotesquely and rapidly.
An amorphous shadow appeared in the air, along with countless spikes constantly stretching and contracting on the surface of the shadow at high speed; it then floated in Hewitt's direction.
