Few people have ever see one, even fewer lived to tell about it. A lithe body like a cat, maybe a panther, but larger. Its skin, streched tight over its bones, is made of stoney scales that blend into the granite like a chameleon. Its legs, of which it has eight! Each one tipped with dagger-like claws. On a long gooseneck, its head carries long teeth for sawing flesh. Even if you see it before it rends you to pieces, it will be too late, for its glassy eyes are so horrible that once you meet its gaze, you are frozen in place, an easy catch for the stalker of the badlands. Instinct: To petrify its prey

• Silently stalk its prey unseen
• Trick prey into meeting its stoney gaze
• Paralyze with its gaze