He heard nothing and sensed nothing, but there were enemies here.
As a few more inches of vision opened up through his continued Assimilation, he was able to see the creature that had silently skewered him.
It pulsed with immense heaviness at THE Surface Depth, but it felt many times more powerful than him despite operating at theoretically the same level of distinction. The thing before him was a writhing mass of half-formed features that should not have been able to coexist on the same form.
Faces that never finished developing emerged from its surface at random angles, mouths open in silent screams that would never be heard in this place of absolute quiet. Limbs sprouted from locations that made no anatomical sense, ending in fractal impossibilities.
