[PQ+] [SE] tearing open the sky

and the only solution was to stand and fight

He didn’t particularly care for the notion of slaughtering the frost foxes either, but kept it in the back of his mind for now. The inquiry extended by Ru, in all its suspicion, made him stoic and reticent. We will see, instead of discounting Elizabeth entirely; he wouldn’t have brought her if he thought she was going to be useless. I can shield if necessary. Like the many times they’d been protected and guarded when their Outlander prowesses had just been starting out too; he wasn’t about to leave a fellow Halovian to be desecrated.

Others, perhaps. It depended on who it was.

Elizabeth ’s extension of information left him with a nod as well, reiterating the directions. “Frostblooms and spiders, echoes, perhaps the foxes, and by then we might see the ursur. If it is not infected, then we can leave it alone.” Pausing and wrinkling his nose, his eyes narrowed speculatively over the horizon, before turning back to the group. They had quite a bit of daylight left, at this rate. “And if it poses a problem, I will take care of it.” Leaving them out of the range of imminent and hostile danger.

With speculations over with, they could head out. “Lead the way,” he rumbled to Hotaru, and they could embark towards the cluster of smaller, weaker infestations.

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Hotaru can post first and lead them to where she saw the frostblooms/spiders!

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