Apparently, whatever that vapor was, it most probably listened to my rambling. It stirred, as if my words had rippled through it, and then it stopped engulfing the five-legged beasts entirely.
It hesitated. Its form shivered, wavered, and then just like that it turned and fled.
"It actually ran away?" I muttered, blinking in disbelief. "Even this vapor ran away? What kind of presence exists here that makes them feel such an overwhelming sense of danger?"
That question dug into me like a thorn. For beings with no physical bodies what could possibly pose a threat? What could force something incorporeal to recoil in instinctive fear?
The thought left me uneasy, yet strangely thrilled.
