Most of all, she could see the creatures – beasts of terrible power and stature, spreading forth across the land from a pit in the earth, from which spewed flames of fire and shadow. Some she recognized like dragons, hydras, wyverns or basilisks. Others she did not, great automatons of living rock, fire seeping out of the cracks of their chitinous bodies, holding weapons and throwing flames. They looked just like the statue of the monster back in the boulevard.