Mothwake Mothwake is a Class 4 Behemoth that flies without a sound. Fifty-eight meters tall, six-limbed, with four moth-like wings spanning about 110 meters and a false eye painted across each one. It perches on cliffs, stalks a coastline for hours, and drops on its prey from above. It reads almost beautiful. That's the horror of it. A predator, not a monster Mothwake isn't malicious. It's a predator hunting territory. It nests in cliff faces and sea stacks and hunts over the coast at dawn and dusk. It will watch a target for hours before it moves, and it doesn't stand and fight. It strikes, disorients, and leaves before anything can answer. What it is Tall, gaunt and perched. Mothwake stands on two heavy clawed hindlegs built for gripping rock and launching. Two raptorial arms fold against its chest, and two long scythe-arms are held forward, each blade about 15 meters long. Behind it trails a long segmented tail with a curved bone barb at the tip. Its head ends in a downward-curving raptor beak with no teeth. The beak shears. A large pale eye sits on each side of its skull, with a cluster of three smaller eyes above, and none of them ever blink at the same time. Long feathered antennae sweep back from its brow under a frilled crown of bone spikes. Its body is bone white and dusk purple, layered in overlapping scales like a moth's wing, with lavender veins that flush brighter when it works. The wings beat slowly and make no sound at all. Each one carries a huge false-eye pattern. How it fights Mothwake attacks the pilot before it attacks the mech. Its antennae can feel a mech's vibrations and electronic noise from kilometers away. The false eyes on its wings throw phantom target-locks and ghost returns into mech sensors, and for two or three seconds a pilot gets tunnel vision and tracking lag. Two or three seconds is all it needs. Then it drops off a cliff in silence. The scythe-arms cut, and the raptorial arms fire outward 30 meters at speed and punch twin bone spikes through armor. It can shake a cloud of spore-dust from its wings that hangs in the air for half a minute, and that cloud ignites if a plasma or beam weapon fires through it. Its iridescent scales make it hard to see against a dawn or dusk sky. Weak points The wing bases. Cut one wing joint and it falls. The chest-plate seams. When its false-face plate opens. The throat behind the beak. When its head is fully extended. The antennae. Its whole sense of the fight runs through them. Specs Class: 4, Behemoth Height: 58 meters Wingspan: About 110 meters Mass: About 8,500 tons Habitat: Cliff faces and sea stacks along the coast Glow: Lavender Built to fight it: White Petal Spoilers: Mothwake Everything below this line happens in Part One. If you'd rather find out on screen, stop here. Aya and White Petal hunt Mothwake and cut it down with speed. She runs straight up the cliff, catches it mid-glide, and cuts through the joint of one forewing. Then she rides the falling body down and drives the beam-naginata between the false-eye markings on its chest as they crash into the surf together.