Nox sat quietly, holding her breath. There’s something out there, she thought. She tried to shrink inside herself, scanning the forest for signs of intruders. There! The glow of magic on the forest floor, barely visible between the trees. She kept looking for more signs. Something was out there, something that she did not want to see her. She could make a jump through the tree she just popped out of but who knows where that would lead her. I don’t even know where I am now. She blinked, trying to clear her eyes. She spotted another glow of magic, further to her left, this one a trail continuing around behind the tree that sheltered her. She closed her eyes, trying to “feel” a presence and she nearly shrieked with panic as she felt magic all around her. She was trapped.

Neuma signaled to her partner. They had heard an odd sound while out on patrol and were trying to find its source. As she circled the place they thought it came from, her heart raced faster and faster. It had sounded like something fell from a tree but the only other person that came out here was Jakobi. Unless someone had been flying overhead and suddenly dropped to the ground, which was just the sort of thing that had Neuma worried.