"A mutant. And what are you? A lost traveler looking to be added to my graveyard?"

With his new form, Tom's taken on his old flair for the melodramatic and ridiculous. He tucks the note back next to the knot of the tree and moves towards Zed's voice, not walking so much as slithering like an upright snake not with legs but with a mound of boughs and mulch and leaves that moves with him with a distinct damp rustling sound.

"Come out where I can see you. I've been longing for a challenge."