Oh, so they're really digging into this, are they? Tarantulas shrinks down small enough that he can pull the tails of his coat under his body like a blanket and settles down on the stairs next to Vika.

"It behaves like a predatory animal," he says musingly. "And it left a skeleton behind when you killed it. Perhaps it is the product of some dalliance between one of the princes and a creature of this part of a reality? A...what's the word they use? A tiefling?"