Lile could only watch as the demon swallowed the striped, red wolf that had once been Haizea. The wolf snarled and gnashed its teeth as it went under the wave, but its efforts were futile. It disappeared entirely, consumed by what had once been a beast, mush like bear, but was now a formless mass of black flesh. Itzal, large and black, and Sorne, dark brown and slight in form attacked the mass from both sides. But if they had struggled during their first round, when it had been a beast, they struggled all the more now. The mass merely wobbled and churned, buffering all their attempts to tear into it.
"It is useless," Gren said to her. He had shown up as Lile was about to be eaten by the beast and somehow saved her from it. "They cannot kill it. It has no heart. It has no brain. There is
