The body answers.  "I do not know what it was.  When it had it's hands around my throat, it's arms turned a purplish color, and it said in a male voice, 'Sorry, nothing personal.'  Then it's eyes glowed purple.  Then I died."<br/><br/>The corpse falls silent, but something has sparked a memory.  A Young Bargest perhaps?  Some Bargest's shapechanging abilites were more advanced than others.  But if so, why did it not eat the man?<br/><br/>((I'm using a variant Bargest rule, where Bargests raised on the prime material can take on different shapes than Goblins and Wolves... it's canon if you read Salvatore.))