Somewhere, a few people were experiencing a tingle in their noses, an odd sensation for people who could easily get treated by medical pods.
But if there was one more creature who should be feeling this odd sensation, it would have been the beast that started this all.
It began with a tremor.
The group that had been diligently filleting their newfound treasures stopped their assigned tasks.
It wasn't anything unusual at first.
What followed was.
A wave of heat. Then the scent of scorched blood, thick enough to overpower the already heinous smell of so many monster carcasses.
While most pilots shouldn't be privy to this information, D-29's sensors pulsed with escalating danger as it followed Princess Kira's scent theories.
And so they had been warned even before the beast emerged from the ridge.
At first glance, it didn't seem like much. Small. Wiry. But then the scans came in, and the little system called out the odd escalation.
And it was still climbing.
