"God"

Many weren’t alive.  Their flesh was lower quality, lacking moisture, riddled with wire and other things.  This creature ate the wire, and muscle action worked to drag the wire to where it might be useful, joining the small fragments of metal in encasing the most important parts of this creature’s body.

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This creature was four times the size it had been when it had left the building, streamlined.  It had learned how to break down the metals and wood that penetrated its flesh and battered its internal skeleton, and now it turned those metals into better protections.

Enemy Arc 9