They never looked the same twice, always a new grotesque creature of equal or greater wretchedness to the last and yet always recognisable as the same one you saw last week. Didn't matter if it had eight heads, intestines for arms or if it just vomited half-formed infants left, right and centre, you knew you'd seen it before and it remembered you just as well.
The funny thing about the human brain is that when we see something incomprehensible our minds tend to fill in the blanks with the closest thing we can think of. Makes dealing with creatures that have no set form a little easier, though their forms generally seem to get worse each time.
Lord knows how many people have lost their resolve, sanity or life to their inability to adapt and gloss over the parts of the creatures that never seem to settle. You know, the parts that make your brain vibrate and your teeth feel like toffee if you stare for too long though its always so hard to look away.
It's also a risky move to lose sight of them. One minute they're eating a bird several metres away and the next they have their multitude of squid-like appendages wrapped around you, barbs digging in and jaws unhinging and rotating to better fit you in one bite.
On the bright side, the last couple of times you survived your encounter and only lost eight fingers.
The funny thing about the human brain is that when we see something incomprehensible our minds tend to fill in the blanks with the closest thing we can think of. Makes dealing with creatures that have no set form a little easier, though their forms generally seem to get worse each time.
Lord knows how many people have lost their resolve, sanity or life to their inability to adapt and gloss over the parts of the creatures that never seem to settle. You know, the parts that make your brain vibrate and your teeth feel like toffee if you stare for too long though its always so hard to look away.
It's also a risky move to lose sight of them. One minute they're eating a bird several metres away and the next they have their multitude of squid-like appendages wrapped around you, barbs digging in and jaws unhinging and rotating to better fit you in one bite.
On the bright side, the last couple of times you survived your encounter and only lost eight fingers.
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