Evian gave a grunt as he pulled his arrow free, ripping it from the furred flesh of the thing he had just killed. He sank back onto his heels as he wiped the arrowhead clean of blood, noting absently that the blood was an odd blueish-green hue that looked distinctly unnatural. The man had originally been intending on leaving this being alone - but in the end, hadn't been given a choice.

He had first noticed it almost an hour ago, and he hadn't recognized it then. It was small, only about the size of a human child, but moved around on six limbs. But it wasn't an insect - it had fur and skin that the blue-eyed man could see. It only had one head, thankfully, but as Evian watched it go by, that head had begun to swivel around like it was on a ball pivot. He'd never seen anything that wasn't an owl move its head like that. The creature was unsettling to look at, but since he didn't know it, he was intending to leave it alone.

When he had come across the creature, Evian had actually been up in a tree, resting on a tree branch. He had developed the habit after realizing that this way, he would at least have some warning and time to react if something decided to attack him. The mystery creature was moving along the forest floor, scuttling along on its disjointed limbs, so it was a decent way away from him.

Despite that, the creature almost seemed to realize it was being observed. Its head had begun that unnatural swivel, twisting about, scanning through the wos with bulbous, ichor green eyes. As it looked around, Evian could see that it three eyes, in a line on its face, and it looked like each had two pupils, or something else that made a black pit appear in the middle of those foul orbs. His rumination about its appearance had been cut short when its head almost split in half horizontally, revealing a mouth full of far, far too many teeth and two barbed tongues that began to flick at the air almost like a snake's would.

Then the thing shrieked a sound that grated at Evian's bones. Like metal being ground against metal, the noise ripped through the peaceful forest air. Evian barely noticed the flock of birds that took to the sky when that sound went off, because the thing was charging at him. It seemed to have no concern about anything else in its way, crashing through the brush as it ran at the tree he was in. Evian was a bit dumbfounded, not having done anything at all - he hadn't even moved since he had seen the thing, just looked at it.

Then it had begun to crawl up the tree. Its legs ended in feet that had three claws extending from what looked like pus-filled boils, which it had dug into the bark of the tree to make its way towards Evian. The man had promptly fled, grabbing his gear from where it was hanging before jumping down and running. It had not stopped chasing him though, ripping itself from the tree to pursue him.

It had chased him for almost a mile through the forest, until he'd given up and started fighting it. He'd had to shoot it several times, trying to keep his distance because he didn't want to find out what those claws or teeth would do to him. It had finally died, and even with multiple bleeding wounds and that it stopped moving, Evian had not trusted it and gone near for five minutes, until he was sure it was dead.

"What in all hells are you?" Evian finally asked, staring at the unblinking eyes of the unknown beast. He grunted and grabbed one of the legs, and started plodding towards town, to see if anyone recognized the thing.