A wolf like creature with a hide of metal stood between us and the egg now, the smooth, metallic flesh of this monster glittering red from the mist around us while the white marble just made the silver all the brighter.
Long talons dug into the marble, leaving behind gouges that ruined the perfect flooring, while its barbed, bladed tail swished around idly behind it; even with it brushing against the floor there was little sound to be heard, like it wasn't actually moving.
Something made of that kind of metal should be producing a large amount of noise just by existing, and yet it was deadly silent as it observed us, not moving unless it needed to; there were just two spheres of that red energy swirling around within its eye sockets, shining brighter than the energy we had seen before.
