As Jason's rune began to glow, Charlie felt her nostrils grow overwhelmed with the monster's smell as the pair emerged into a large circular room. The smell of blood and the victims rotting fleshed flooded Charlie's senses as her stomach let out an involuntary growl at the introduction of the new odor. 

"Don't think too much of that. I prefer my food fresh the same as you." She muttered as she drew the large gun from her thigh and pointed into the circular room. Holding a finger steady over the hammer, Charlie took slow steps forward as she examined their surroundings. Dingy water flowed into the room from higher tunnels, tainted green with waste, algae and whatever else was polluting the water. A femur snapped beneath her feet as she walked forward causing Charlie's hackles to raise. 

"We've found its nest." Charlie stated as she paused to look around. Scales littered the ground among the remains of the creature's victims as Charlie kneeled to take a closer look, running the scale under her nose. 

"It's not a basilisk." Charlie stated as she stood up. "Too many remains, no petrified people and not the right smell." Walking towards the center of the room, the female Dhampyr pulled her Bowie knife from her boot and poked at a piled of brush that had been dragged to the center of the room. Beneath the dead branches and long blades of grass was a smooth looking rock, nearly three feet tall and a brownish green in colour, Charlie ran her hand along before pressing an ear to the cold surface.

"...It's an egg." She exclaimed as she turned to Jason. "We're not hunting just one. We're hunting a pair."