The rising red sun was peeking slowly over the eastern horizon, casting long shadows off a few standing rocky spires over the uneven landscape. As the day began to claim the surroundings of the bleak surface of the Daemon webs a few critters, most of them spiders of size comparable to those on earth, had begun to skitter about. Skittering from under rocks or the folds of petrified webbing. One of the insects that crept out from a large rock formation was an arthropod as large as a man's arm, its jointed body shiny and a shade of green so dark as to almost be black. Minute hairs coated its legs and torso, evolved to trap moisture from the dry atmosphere of the bleak daemon webs. They also served as sensory addenda to the large palps that moved about its head. Long, multiple-jointed legs slid carefully over the side of a silky batch of webs, the body of the creature slung between them. The insect sampled the morning air, and felt the perturbations of it for signs of other life. It was a predator, feeding on smaller varieties of its own phylum, flying mites, and the occasional spider. 

It hesitated on a patch of rocks, considering as best the cluster of nerves that were its brain would let it. It sensed a level of warmth several feet ahead, and the scent of creatures it had never before encountered. It's mandibles danced as it considered if these were prey. Suddenly it froze again as it sensed another presence. What served as fear in the simple creatures brain came forth. It skittered across the uneven grand as it ran several feet past the pair of planar travelers; Kholodny and Keezi.

It was not the only one to do so as dozens upon dozens of smaller critters skittered past the two polar-opposites seemingly oblivious to their presence as they seemed to flee from some unseen creature. In moments the hordes dwindled until only silence remained. Whatever was approaching the two travelers still had precocious time to run or hide. Those sensitive to minute vibrations might detect the approach of something very large indeed. 

A great pit some 50 feet away from the pair something emerged, first one great leg-its segment as long as two men standing atop each other-appeared.Then another, then three, until four great spidery legs were edging from out of the great spider hole. Something rose out form the hole with slow terrifying grace as it shook slumber from it's limbs. Four great pairs of eyes as solid black as onyx cast about studying it's surroundings. If the two had not hidden by now the great lumbering beast would roar a challenge and charge in their direction seeking a quick morning snack. Slivering saliva mixed with venom pooled from it's segmented mouth, mandibles twitched with hunger, great claws reflecting in the dim light of dawn on it's crude black three fingered arms. It resembled some horrifying mix of troll, ogre and spider all in one, and seemed to possess all their fearsome qualities at once. 

A deep cave to their immediate north seemed the best place to run into for shelter did they choose to take it.