A small, green creature materialized from nowhere, about the size of a child but utterly alien in its features. Its skin was a verdant shade that seemed to shift in the light, its pointed ears twitching as it noticed them, its large luminous eyes filled with an intelligence that made Elio pause.
"What is that?" Elio found himself moving forward, fascination overriding caution. Poison Stinger tugged at his spiritual form, trying to hold him back, but the pull of this new discovery was too strong.
The goblin (though Elio had no name for such a creature) raised its head to look at them. For a moment, it seemed as curious about them as they were about it. Its head tilted, ears twitching, eyes widening slightly...
Then everything happened in an instant.