I have been among the ruins of the Ghoa Fortress for nigh on eleven days now. The creatures here are diverse, though I hesitate to call them animals.
Monsters seems a more accurate term, and what monstrosities they are! I have encountered a great snake-like thing from the waist down, but from the waist up: a woman! Or like a woman I suppose.
She’d bitten my left arm and the swelling--well. A matter for when I reach town. The encyclopedia will be sensational if I continue recording these discoveries.