The two humans appeared no different from me, they had black hair, and brown skin, likely from being in the sun for a long time, and what was important was that I could not feel any channels in their bodies, I may have to carefully investigate if I had the chance, but these two were not mages, although I could feel that they were not normal mortals, as a subtle hint of danger surrounded them.
The heat haze covering the last unknown mount moved to the side of the last figure among the nine that I had not looked at.
Then the haze vanished, revealing a massive tiger the size of a cart, with its left flank torn open from the shoulder down to the hip and packed with something dark, standing there with its head low and its ears flat while its breath comes out in slow clouds the wind keeps pulling apart.
