[quote=@Realmatic]
<Snipped quote by Heroic>

When we reach the pearl. *After a bit, we come to the outskirts of the village; a ways away there is a carcass of a wolf-looking animal surrounded by animals that look like lions; the centre of the carcass seems to grow a pale green light* The pearl is there, in the gray animal.
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Why do they have the pearl? What are they?