Golden script appeared over Kaiden's vision.
[Defending Dungeon Master located.]
For a moment he could only stare at the creature curled inside its sac. He had been looking for something that could speak, or fight, or at least stand up to greet the people slaughtering their way through its home.
This thing had yet to stretch its legs.
As they approached the hollow, its head shifted against the membrane. A row of eyes opened beneath its brow, followed by another below them, and Kaiden stopped.
Six eyes looked out from under growing plates of stone.
He remembered that arrangement looming over his home, high enough that looking up at it had hurt his neck.
"Kaiden?"
"The Claimant. Look at its face."
Yunohana came beside him. Recognition drained the amusement from her expression as her gaze traveled from the eyes to the folded limbs beneath the unfinished carapace.
"A creature of the same kind?"
"I'm not sure. But it is a Dungeon Master, like me and like Pebble used to be."
