The ground soon started to shake intermittently beneath our feet, and the beating of metal symbols echoed throughout the settlement from the alarms being raised.
A sentry tired from his run back and forth had his hands on his knees as he bent over gasping for air. He recovered enough to stand and start talking. His voice was cracking with panic.
"It's coming! A large-scale beast is coming!"
When I walked away from the group standing around the sentry and out of the settlement what I saw over the horizon was a colossus.
It was such a size that my breath caught in my throat just thinking of us going up against that thing.
A giant pangolin-like creature lumbered toward us, its body glinting under the twin suns. Its armored plates overlapped like a fortress wall, and from what I could see from here, each one was bigger than a shield.
The beast was as large as the chief's great tent, the same one that could hold fifty people comfortably inside.
