Clay Dunestrider

$ Transcribing audio... done. $ Resolving... done. $ Outputting text strings... done. Complete! <Click> There are no landmarks in site. I am surrounded by infinite desert. <Click> <Click> I’ve run out of rations… and no one is responding to my transponder. I may be doomed if I don’t find a way out of these dunes. <Click> <Click> I see something in the distance… some large creature. I may be in luck yet. <Click> <Click> Oh... my eyes deceived me. It was not a creature… but a herd. There was more than one. Many more. Hundreds of enormous creatures, moving as a mob– and each one the biggest beast I have ever seen. These striders resembled… enormous spiders, or hermit crabs, in a porcelain shell, with legs dark like tar. Between the sound and the sand, the entire herd bounded past me without realizing – moving at incredible speeds on their long legs. Were they fleeing… or migrating? I still can’t believe… what a terrible place. Get me out. <Click> <Click> I still have no food. <Click>