The first creature had been strange enough, but the more Keane thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong with the entire gate.
It was possible that the creature was simply some unusual mutation, but for some reason, even that explanation didn't feel completely right.
Keane left the body and continued deeper into the gate, only for the next creature he found to somehow look even worse than the first. This one had the body of some large insect, the head of something that looked like a bird, and a pair of human-like arms growing from its back.
Keane killed it with several rocks he hurled at it, not wanting to touch it.
After that came one with six eyes arranged around its head, then another that didn't even have a head, with its face instead located directly in the middle of its chest. Every monster he came across looked wrong in one way or another, but strangely enough, none of them were particularly strong.
