Sheyken touched Ruby uncourteously. The group had started moving again after they had finished processing the Wemongu. It was what Exzola had called the beast. He said it was one of the beasts that are born smart. They would try to copy the way its prey hunted other beasts from a young age and try to imitate it, taking what works for it and leaving the rest. Since humans have been traveling through the desert for many years now, their favorite prey had become them. It had come to grow arms and legs like that of humans and pass the traits to the next generation, together with how humans used mana. 'Scary.' Sheyken had thought. He was still shocked that Victicus was a Beast warrior and some of what they had told him had gone in one ear and out of the other one. He had asked for more inform

