You stumble around a corner into a opening in the cave, the shimmering lights continue to coax you onward. The sword grows heavy in your tight grip as the lights dance like sprites in the dark cave. Your focus on the enthralling lights makes the cave seem even darker, but you manage to look away for a split second. You hear voices in the back of your mind trying to get you to look back, but your eyes begin to adjust to the blackness.
You reel in abject horror as you see the creature though the blackness. Immediately, awareness comes back to you as you prepare to defend yourself. The thing resembles no creature that you have ever seen before. The Fleshy body is a patchwork of blending skin tones, but the majority of its body is reddish brown. Strange spines and seemingly random clusters of body parts grow from the creature. It is an abomination, a monster, that you now realize is made of dozens of bodies fused together. To your mounting horror you see your companion, , laying against the pallid and oily skin of the monster, held firmly by some sort of segmented limb.
You draw your sword back in a high defensive arc, holding it above your head, parallel with the floor. The creature reacts as you steel yourself, peeling a pair of strange segmented tendrils away from the cavern walls. Each limb is capped in a glowing bulbous cap, that resembles a small mushroom cluster. It pulsates as it aims at your face, the glowing lights make reality seem oddly distant, and the voices return to coyly reminding you how tired you are.
You summon the Burning Rose with your remaining focus.
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