The Filthy Tale from the Sky-Ground
On one of my latest expeditions to The Mighty Hills up north, I discovered something. I first saw a distant shimmer in the sand, different to the elusive lanterns that the aristocrat so desperately seek, but also different to the beasts that imitate them in order to attack lonely researchers like me. This shimmer called out to me. Some deep part of my mind compelled me to flow closer into this light despite my bones shaking from the thought of encountering a leviathan. For my immediate fortune (although, I would come to regret it eventually), not a single breathing thing welcomed me into what I was about to see: A casing made of strange shiny metal, shredded to pieces, as if strangled by a colossus. It had all kinds of limbs and glassy eyes attatched to it, made of the same shiny metal. The same kind of iron our kind once used to harm each other. It was also hollow, filled with equally fringe items, except brittle despite their resilient aspect. This thing , if I can call it that, was ...