Gorgon

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

The gorgon keeps a place, and the place is furnished with what came to it: figures in stone, some in armour, most facing the same way, toward where it usually sits. It does not roam, because everything comes to it eventually. The serpents of its hair are restless when it is not, and a watcher listening at the door hears them before anything else. It talks. Do not answer with your face.