Standing straight with a strong gate, Rue looked at the shriveled body of the creature below.
Its body splayed across the darkened grass, its limbs staggered—jerking in a constant irregular sync from the past nerve endings.
The creature was still alive, even if barely.
Within the center of its brain, the marble sized structure that housed the creature's Will, stubbornly held on biting its time, patiently waiting for any moment it could exploit to recover and flee.
Finalizing his study on the entity's physiology, Rue feeling satisfied with his findings, now commanded his will to discharge from the creature's body and back into his own.
Feeling the command.
The Will, now beguiled by the sudden message, attempted to persuade its master to allow it several more minutes to explore this new landscape, but—much to its dismay—these pleas were quickly dismissed by Rue.
Begrudgingly the energy left from the creature's nervous system, retreating back into their host.
Sensing the absence of will within the creature, Rue scratched his chin in thought.
"Now what should I do with you, eh?" The inquisitor muttered aloud.
Glancing at the creature's bark textured cranium, Rue recalled the creature's unique self-preservation mechanism.
It was rather ingenious and spontaneous, if he hadn't been as aware with the unique biologies of countless styles of beasts, then Rue would have dismissed it as the Initial creatures, but this was clearly not the case.
While it felt like Will, the marble structure clearly didn't emit the same wavelengths as latent energy would during the host's death. Rather it stuck within the tissue, but compared to normal vitals the energy was veiled in a scattered manner that impeded the majority of its Will from escaping.
That marble was the creature's Ego.
'I reckon killing this bastard would be a waste due to its potential uses, and further more in depth study, but…' Collapsing his stance into a squatted position, Rue continued his contemplation 'its thread will always be there.
'It's not like the threat could be disregarded due the coincidence of the time and place, but genuinely due to this entity's adaptability in hand-to-hand combat.'
'Hell, that could merely be the tip of the iceberg, who knows what this thing could do given enough time' Rue shuddered.
"Man what the hell is going on with the world." Pinching his brow, Rue let out a long exasperated sigh.
'First it's that damn wall, that gave the impression the world was its opposition, the weird energy in the air that while negligible still gives me an uneasy feeling, and now we have some damn rando beast that was able to actually put up a good fight.'
After several seconds Rue had made up his mind.
"Death it is bitch."
Clenching his fist, Rue punched the creature square at its cervical spine.
The head exploded into shards of bone, and black colored brain matter splatted around the vicinity.
Staring at the creature's corpse, Rue nodded reassuring himself that this was the proper decision.
Bending down, Rue picked up a small dull green pebble from the pile of gore.
Holding the thing in between his index finger and thumb, Rue inserted a tinge of his Will into the green pebble.
This action immediately elicited the pebble to begin trembling, from a deep-seated primal tarnishing its being.
"Now that I got rid of the nuance… What should I do with you?" He thought aloud, examining the pebble within his grasp.
DAMN IT, I'm so sorry I have to post shit readers, but I want to keep my writing streak up, and these finals are being a bitch so whelp.