Monsters In The Dark

He had come across large metal structures before, the ship in Auster being the largest he'd ever experienced. He didn't know what made him but some part of him knew they were made by something. Demons, perhaps? Some part of him wondered if there were more things like this in the afterlife, if Ruina's kingdom in the Underworld was made of metal too.

He wanted to know, but that curiosity would be sated in due time.

He moved with well-trained grace, long limbs carrying his wide-splayed paws delicately like the legs of a Doberman silently carrying it around the junkyard it was bred to protect. His gaze met each metal device with studious intent, but the large tank in the center of the field drew his attention. It wasn't until he saw the tank that he thought for a moment that these might have once been battlegrounds. The thing was huge and looked capable of withstanding nearly anything thrown at it- how hard would it have been for wolves to take one down? Could they have been able to? How did you take down an opponent made of metal?

He was curious, but an eerie feeling kept him at bay. He had no intentions of getting closer to it and risking summoning it to life after all this time. With everything that he'd witnessed in his life, nothing really seemed to shock him anymore- he would not be surprised if this device was waiting for him. He had every intention of getting out of the field and continuing on his march without looking back - until he saw another beginning to climb the tank.

He'd missed the scent, the wind working against him and carrying it away from him, but as he looked over the young man he recognized him immediately as one of his sons that had been in Aures' company. He was climbing the very thing Elias was doing his best to avoid in this field, and that issued a sigh from him almost immediately. Where was his sense of caution?

Elias came to a distance of twenty feet from the tank and Rein and called out, "What are you going to do when that thing wakes up?"