She'd encountered several undain during her time as Nox's underling, and she'd heard much more about them. The forms they adopted. Their inhuman powers. Still, she wasn't prepared for what she saw.
Two of the undain were giants, twice as tall as she was. Their bodies were mountainous, broad and powerful. They had no skin. Or, if they did, it was transparent. Light shone from within them as if they were hulking machines. But they were clearly flesh and blood; she could see their muscles bunching and flexing as they moved. Where their skin should have been, black lines wound about them in whorls and spirals, something like tattoos. Whether they were like this out of choice or as some sort of punishment she couldn't tell. The patterns twisting about their bodies were beautiful. Each of the g
