The Mirror Creature

Rain froze at the sound of the voice. He didn't know exactly how, but it inspired a fear in him so large it forwarded the entity he had felt earlier in the large void. He couldn't move. The oppression from the figure hiding somewhere in the maze of reflections and refractions emanating a presence that caged his fight or flight instinct.

"Like I said, you weren't supposed to be here yet. We will speak later."

With that, the aura of oppression disappeared as quickly and as mysteriously as it had arrived. 'It called me an aspirant, right?' Rain thought to himself, trying to make sense of the situation. 'So the data on the watch actually meant something.' He was filled with a sudden childlike emotion. Excitement. And the thirst for answers. So he turned and headed deeper into the treacherous temple.

Sticking to the shadows of the great pillars, Rain moved quietly as though he was stalking something. That was of course because he was stalking something.

The creature stood no taller than Rain himself. Made entirely out of a deep blue tinted glass, with no visible facial features on its human like form. It had something that resembled distorted wings on its back that obviously could not be used for flight, given how heavy the creature had to have been. It stood with a slight hunch in its back that seemed to be entirely made up of skin and bones, or glass and mirrors.

While the strange sight seemed dangerous, and it obviously was, the fact that Rain could not feel an overwhelming aura resonating from it was enough to tell him it might just be doable. Also, the fact that it was guarding something at the center of the temple made it impossible for Rain to resist his urges for knowledge.

He surveyed the creature for several hours. Slowly moving along the edge of the clearing in the pillars. He noticed that the creature seemed to be blind and deaf. Which one would think would make it completely defenseless. But it had obviously found other ways to find its enemies. It seemed like through the tiny shards of mirror embedded on its body in sparse quantities, it could sense the resonance that all beings seemed to give off here. The evidence being when a tiny lizard like creature walked in front of it and the guard moved to assess the threat.

Rain was scared out of his wits when this had happened, because he though that the unmoving guard had moved for something else. Him. He had just stepped into the clearing when the guard moved, so he was relieved to see it look intently at the lizard before assuming its position once again.

It also seemed as if the guard had a sort of seismic sense. Rain found this out when he moved just a tiny bit too close and the guard suddenly looked directly at him. At least he thought it was looking at him. After all it was hard to tell where an abomination with no eyes was looking at. So he instantly stepped back and hesitated before climbing back into the shadows of the pillars. The guard did not give chase.

Although Rain was admittedly scared of the guard, after watching the crystalline sculpture for a couple of hours through a couple of different situations, he felt mostly confident that he could take it in a fight. Nonetheless, Rain was still scared so he took quite a while longer before doing anything rash.

After an agonizingly slow 6 hours, Rain could not suppress his lust for the information or item the guard held behind the locked door in the middle of the temple. Steeling his thoughts and will, he prepared his only weapon. An especially long shard of glad he found hanging from one of the pillars at around his eye level.

Then, with a couple breaths and a preparation to make as little contact with the ground as possible, Rain charged.