Bruce watched the creature remove one of the cores from its body, his legs tensing in case he needed to back up quickly. He noted how easily it was able to move things in and out of its body, concerned about that detail should anything devolve into a fight. He could tell something was wrong with this creature, or at least its speech patterns, because it was regressing rapidly.
A thought suddenly occurred to him.
[color=0072bc]"There was a golem here, then."[/color] he said, a statement rather than a question. [color=0072bc]"The souls you've just collected came from a golem that was here and you took them, didn't you?"[/color]