The mist showed up before the creatures. I noticed the smell got stronger and then the entire colony was coated in the mist. Trezlan also disappeared as I knew he would, he'd rather annoy than assist. The first of them was a small shuffling thing, it looked like a rock with an eyeball and feet. I had my hand on my sword and then relaxed, thinking maybe these creatures just needed to talk, and that maybe the colonists had been taken for a diplomatic meeting. The creature approached me, staring at first, and then the rock part opened up into teeth and it tried to bite me. I cut the little sucker in two.
As it died it made a horrible howling noise and larger rock eyes showed up. They didn't run, they shambled, but their size and numbers meant I had to fall back to the spaceport. Thankfully they didn't follow. It was weird, they were pursuing me up until I got to the port and then they just stayed at the edges as if held in check by something. I figured it couldn't be Trezlan since he just got there and they wouldn't know he was something they wanted to leave alone, and it partially explained why the port was mostly untouched. Well sort of it made no sense why the eye creatures couldn't get to the spaceport.
"So you saw the eye guys." Trezlan of course was waiting with baited breath.
"Is that what they are called?"
"It's what I call them."
"So there probably hundre..."
"Thousands of them, under the ground, its kind of glorious in their awful."
"And it smells worse down there I bet."
"So much worse."
"Even though this isn't your fault I want to blame you."
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