Northern passed the two of them and waited in front.
Helena and Raven slowly turned, silently observing.
Terence was further back, her face plastered with divine awe. She had been looking at Northern that way ever since he cloned himself.
The other two clones walked and stopped behind Northern.
Another shudder took the entire forest by storm, being the most violent one so far.
And finally, the creature, emerging from the embrace of darkness, revealed its true form.
Northern...and the others' heads slowly slid up as the abomination manifested before them.
...A nightmarish amalgamation writhing with countless grotesque tentacles and appendages.
At its core lurked a vaguely humanoid shape, elongated claws extending from distorted limbs made of shifting, mottled grays and blacks.
Sickly white bony protrusions jutted outward, giving the illusion of countless eyes, each one insanely observing the expanse before it.
