Welcome back, gang. Just needed some sort of mythological beast so I chose the Knucker. Enjoy.
The Brown Knucker
Antaeus and Senoj continued through the underworld. Finally, Antaeus stopped. Senoj turned back to look at him. Lacking eyebrows, Senoj simply raised a brow ridge.
"Something wrong?" Antaeus shook his head.
"I'm just tired, let me rest a bit." Antaeus sat down on a rock. He was breathing loudly. "Age is catching up to me, forty-one and immediately my legs start to get heavy." He laughed. "I'm not as fast as I once was, my strength is fine but my speed is starting to become… not so fast I guess." Antaeus then placed his hands on his knees. He then looked up at Senoj. "Senoj, you're people were split in two at a time. Your spiritual side longed for harmony and your warrior side gloried in battle. How did you ever bring them together?"
"You've never been to a Nomis settlement have you?" Antaeus shook his head. "Village, town, city they're all the same. If I'm not cast out for this, I'll show you the settlement that I come from." Antaeus raised an eyebrow in question.
"Why would you be cast out?"
"We don't approve of lethal force." Nomis looked down at his feet. "But this has to be done. I'm convinced I'm doing the right thing." Antaeus nodded.
"Harapa is a danger to everyone, you are doing the right thing." Antaeus stood up. He noticed something. Senoj turned around and noticed the same thing. A creature appeared, coming out of a tunnel. It looked like a snake with legs and wings, brown in color. It was a Knucker! The Knucker looked at the Evabon and the Nomis then continued on its merry way as if it hadn't seen anything. Antaeus followed it, so did Senoj. They had a hunch but if they were to follow the Knucker, they'd find a way to the surface of the city.
Balor's unconscious form hadn't moved from where Crinan left him. While he learned in limbo there was nothing he could do in the physical world. His body was stuck there in front of the tomb.
It was that way that a brown knucker came across him. Coming out of the tomb, the knucker looked puzzled. Why was there an unconscious evabon here? The knucker extended its serpentine neck down and its head was right next to Balor's. Balor's head could fit in the creature's mouth! It did not bother the knucker it would have bothered someone else but not the knucker. The knucker stuck its snake-like tongue into Balor's ear and to its surprise Balor did not awaken. He was breathing so why did he not awaken?
The Knucker had been followed by an evabon, long ago when it was young and tender. Now that it was old and strong, a young evabon was outside of the tomb it called home. Why? Was this a trap? Was the Knucker being hunted? The Knucker did not know.
The Knucker grabbed Balor's shoulder with its mouth and dragged the young evabon inside the tomb. Ally or enemy, a child needed shelter.