Hide's boots crunched softly against the pulverized rocks as he walked up to the corpse of the dead dragon.
From the top of the mountain, the beast had looked like a massive, swirling eel. But standing directly before it, the unfathomable scale of the creature was paralyzing. It was even more majestic up close.
Its elongated, reptilian face alone was so impossibly large that its open jaws could easily swallow entire multi-story buildings whole.
Thick, tree-like antlers grew from its crown, and its long, ethereal whiskers lay limp across the crushed stone. Even in death, its faintly glowing, luminescent blue-scaled skin rippled with residual static electricity, sending tiny, popping arcs of blue lightning into the damp earth.
Looking at the mass and biological perfection of the dragon, Hide's mind flashed back to the basement beneath the Sihue estate. He suddenly remembered the chained, teal-furred feline Calamity Beast locked in the dark.
The Doom Overseer.
