Ambush predator

Could I use that Beast master power or whatever it was on it? It was a giant insect after all. I tried to reach out, but its mind felt like a diamond wall; impenetrable and impossible to breech. I could sense other things in the sand, and I reached out to them.

***

It vanished again, but I was starting to see a pattern to its attacks. It liked to attack from behind, but it had likely noticed that I’d noticed, and so it would likely try to attack me from a different angle.

I let myself lose all cohesion as the thing appeared right in front of where I had been, lunging forward in a move that would have impaled me. It swung down toward me, but it was caught by surprise as four foot lobster like creatures erupted from the sand all around it, grabbing it where ankles would have been in a human, and trying to crack its shell.

Incredibly, it managed to leap up in the air, reacting with superhuman speed and twisting in a way that seemed almost impossible, vanishing a moment later.

A moment later it appeared back in the middle of the air, two of my other selves attacked to it and plunging proboscis into it. I lunged forward and grabbed it as well.

The universe it had been using to slip in and out of had been level with the chamber at the top of the domes. Once I’d sampled it, losing my tentacles, my other selves that had killed the other two Fae had been able to reach it as well. I’d been delaying until they could arrive.

I was at my best as an ambush predator, and that’s what I’d done.

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Rain