Into the Depths: Investigating the Shimmering Shore Tunnels (Group 3)

The ground rumbled again as her ears caught an ominous sound that struck one of her first tastes of true fear. The bones and debris skittered around her as the image of a nightmarish grotesquerie emerged from the soil and oriented its alien gaze upon the small disjointed party. As she caught sight of the sweet woman slowly move Xina stepped backward. The lessons of knowing when to retreat heavy in her mind. Sometimes to survive for another day you had to avoid a fight. Survival survival survival echoed in her brain. Food for the crabs echoed in her mother's voice. She had no qualms of her mother's love but she held no question that her mother would barely mourn her if she died. She had to get to Ludo, she had to get him home. It was one thing to get herself into trouble, it was quite another to get her brother into it. Her ears were radio-dishing in every direction, trying to come up with her own plan. If this thing was in their tunnel, at least it wasn't in his! So maybe if they could tear it apart there wouldn't be a beast to hurt him! Believing there was only one beast.

She saw the deer and wolf wield sticks of fire. That was all she needed. Xina set her stance and lowered her head. She was ready to take a piece of it if moved toward them.