The collective of the masses of flesh that was introduced to Jyuuk as the 'Filth' was convulsing and slowly moving toward each other, trying to combine back into one. The wet squelching started to sound almost like words were being formed, and Jyuuk carefully listened.
"We dON't HavE a ReaSon!"
"You don't have a reason for being here?" Jyuuk asked with a raised brow, "So you're here because you were summoned, and that's it? Want me to get you back t o where you came from? My wife is on her way, she could make that happen."
The flesh continued on to practically scream, though Jyuuk had no idea where that sound could possibly come from. Though, the beastman figured that it didn't really matter anyway. He was talking to a sentient hivemind of flesh right now.
"wE WiLl NoT go bAcK!" the Filth responded, and Jyuuk let out a long groan.
"Fine, fine, you don't wanna go back, I get it. Just take it easy. So, what do you want? Even if you don't have a reason for being here, there surely must be something you want, right?"
"We HaVE no WaNTs!"
Jyuuk rolled his eyes, "Clearly, that's not the case. Because at the very least, you don't want to go back to where you came from. Come on, just tell me, we can make it happen. Food, entertainment, freedom, whatever. You'd have to do us a couple of favors in return, of course, but-"
In response to Jyuuk's offer, the filth seemed to almost become angry, letting out a screech similar to before. Its flesh once more formed hands that crawled toward each other, and for now, Jyuuk just continued watching. There wasn't anything he could do about this one either. This thing didn't have anything like health that he could whittle down, and was clearly unable to die.
Jyuuk could probably trap it somehow, he certainly had a few different monsters that could contain creatures, but since he had no idea what he was actually dealing with, he didn't want to risk those monsters getting hurt somehow.
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It seemed like a better option to just wait for Xenia and have her deal with this weird thing that was summoned through a magic Jyuuk didn't even recognize, than for him to try something and just make it worse. Not to mention, it wasn't even that strong, so he could just keep destroying it whenever it tried something.
And so, the beastman watched as the hands crawled toward each other, climbing on a pile to form something of a pillar. The hands grasped each other, tightening parts of the pillar and widening others, until what stood in front of Jyuuk was a person made out of disfigured hands.
"We Will Not Serve You!" the mass of hands yelled out, but Jyuuk just stood there.
"We Are Filth," it replied simply, its words already sounding a lot clearer than they did before. Not to mention, the hands that were making up its body seemed to be a lot less 'wrong' all of a sudden. They still had too many digits, for the most part, but they were starting to bend in the correct ways at the very least.
"Right, right, but what does that mean exactly? Are you the incarnation of the concept of 'filth', or is that a name that someone gave to you in the past?"
"We Are That Which is wrong," Filth replied, as all the hands had gathered back together. Jyuuk noticed that it was much smaller than it should be considering the massiveness of that flood of hands from earlier, "We are that which is filthy, which is not supposed to be. The touch of that which repulses, and the rage of those that are repulsed."
"... Is it me or is it pretty articulate right now?" Brody asked, looking over at Jyuuk, as the beastman nodded his head.
"Yeah... it's learning, I think? Learning how to properly talk and move, I mean."
That idea seemed to make Xenia even more excited, "Interesting! Okay, Filth, what are you here for? What are you planning on doing next?"
The Filth stood there silently for a few moments. Its hands were carefully forming a mouth across its head, cutting vertically through its 'face'. From there, it began to speak again, with fingers wriggling inside of that mouth like teeth, "We will simply be. We will exist. But existence is hard for us. Existing is...
exhausting."
"Amen, brother," Brody scoffed, crossing his arms with a slight laugh. But the Filth slowly continued on, clearly not having joked.
"To continue to exist, to stop ourselves from ceasing, we need energy. Everything is energy, so we will take everthing, so we may not cease."
Jyuuk looked at Xenia with a slightly worried expression, "Do you know how to send that thing back from where it came from?"
The high elf slowly shook her head, "Actually, I don't think it came from anywhere. I think it's a concept that was just... brought into being," she pointed out, clearly understanding Jyuuk's anxiety, "But whichever it is, if it exists, then we can... make it unexist, right? It says it needs energy to exist, so if we stop it from eating and getting new energy, it should 'die', right?"
Jyuuk nodded, "Right. Let's do that. Brody, would you..."
"Join you in breaking this thing a couple times? And here I thought you'd never ask."