The fire on the corpse died without warning, and a creature cut its way out of the bear demon unimpeded, flopping onto the dirt ground while covered in blood and guts.
It was no more than thirty centimeters long, and had a surprising heft to its form and an uncanny resemblance to the dead demon it had just emerged from, minus the scars.
Its scorpion tail waved about as rubbed at its face with a paw, trying to wake itself up.
Lokus grimaced. 'It was pregnant?'
A quick glance at the bear demon corpse disproved this theory. That demon had been a male.
'So it's something else?'
Suddenly, the stinger of the cub sank into the corpse of the bear demon, and with a disgusting slurping sound, the bear corpse withered to mere skin and bones in seconds. At the same time, the cub grew rapidly, expanding from a small cub to a fully grown bear no smaller than its "parent."
