Basilisk

Basilisk was the malignant monster who terrorized the countryside, wreaking havoc upon all it laid its soulless eyes.

Sir Huntingham was the vengeful knight who vowed to slay Basilisk as his father lay dying from its claw.

Tracking it for months, he found it asleep one moonlit night in a quiet, wooded dell. “Loiter not in the land of the living, foul demon!” Sir Huntingham cried, dragging his sword across the monster’s belly, revealing its insides.

Oliver was the lonely orphan living inside the Basilisk costume whose final thought before the knight’s sword tore through him was, “this all there is?”