Chimeric

How it fights

A predator fights like something that has done this before and expects to again. It opens carefully, watches what you do with the first exchange, and commits only when the answer suits it. Nothing about it is overwhelming and nothing about it is forgiving either: it will take any opening you leave, and it is patient enough to wait for one rather than make its own.

Field notes

A chimeric thing does not agree with itself. The heads want different prey and one is always awake, and it moves as if two animals were arguing over the legs. It keeps to broken country where nothing else can be bothered to hunt it. It is not found by tracks, because the tracks are wrong, but by the smell, which is several smells. Whatever it was made for, it has outlived.