[Salone]

The quivering pile of blood and bone that had been Na'lsa worked its way in to the stomach of the hound. It twisted and melded, growing and rearranging itself within the pit of acid that it found itself. Splintered bone shot outward, piercing the cavern-like wall of the stomach. The mass of gore exploited the opening, tearing its way through in to the rest of the body. It began to reform as it gained mass, pressing against the organs of the hound like some sort of hellish tumor. It grew and grew, until the body could no longer contain it. Acid squeezed itself from the stomach in to the body. Blood and bile filled the empty spaces left. Still the flesh swirled, and sinewy tendrils not unlike tentacles lashed out and pierced tissue. They crept along the spinal column of the hound, rearranging nerve endings and replacing them with their own.

The hound stumbled as its nervous system began to betray itself. In mere moments a large knot began to form along the back of the creature. It grew to immense proportions, swelling upwards until it burst in a rain of blood and tissue. With the bursting Na'lsa emerged, skinless body still rebuilding itself. Sickening limbs of muscles twisted and grew to fine but strong tendrils that disappeared in to the spine of the hound, ripping apart motor control on the nerve level. It buckled as it attempted to fight against the fate that quickly approached. Na'lsa's tendrils wove even deeper in to the flesh, further up the spine and in to the skull of the hound. In to the brain, in to everything. And as he began to literally unplug the hound's brain from its own body, he laughed.

"I AM THAT WHICH WAS. THAT WHICH HAS BEEN. THAT WHICH WILL BE. I AM THE PURVEYOR OF LIFE. I AM THE FLESH WEAVER, AND YOU! HOUND OF HELL! YOU NO LONGER EXIST!"

And with a great heave, the spinal column was unseated from the hound's brain. It collapsed in to a paralyzed, useless heap of broken body. Ooze poured from the wound that Na'lsa had made. He made no rush of climbing from the gaping hole, skin and flesh retracting back in to his body to reform as a human being. Blood and fluids covering his skin coalesced and were absorbed by his pores. In every physical sense, he once again appeared...human.