The blade slides clean into the man's back and out the other side. He went down, the lesson well learned. He sprouted feathers too and began to undergo a similar transformation as the first man-thing. Flesh boiled, bones cracked and the sailor slowly turned into something like the first. He did not scream though.<br/><br/>Rufus looked around at the dead pair with a horrified expression, half leaning forwards to examine the beasts and half trying to back right away from the things.<br/>"Some sort of shapeshifters..."<br/><br/>He disappeared into his room for a moment and returned with the little cloth bundle containing the relic. He offered it to Hanna and said "Best armour yourselves properly and hide this in your room girls. Someone must be after it, that or we got incredibly unlucky."