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Raven lies by Liliath's pale face, wet, cold, and terrified. "We need to get out before they crush us!" Raven frantically searches the room for opening for all of them to escape the house. Tsi-ka take up most of the room, blocking the front door and the broken window, but there's a narrow hallway that probably leads to a back exit. "There!"

In a last desperate move, having pulled a length of intestine out of the draconic body, the large arthropod yanks her injector claws out of the monster, and strikes into its gaping maw, hoping its palette won't be strong enough to keep her from jamming what poison she has left directly into the beast's brain. Either way, this fight would end HERE.

All for the will of the Hive. This contagion would be contained.

Seo nodded and grabbed Liliath and dragged her to the hallway “We need to do something , we can’t just let the kid die!” She looked to the girl , she looked so scary almost dead. But she could see that the child was breathing a little that was good

“Come one cat!”

Death. Finally. It's dying now. More claws striking at the roof of its mouth, a final effort to kill it. Claws slip between the teeth and into the soft palette's flesh but that is also thick and probably protects the brain. But to be safe, whatever lies between its ears is shying away from the claws. Even without the venom, that would be fatal. Not today! It waits for the dying Tsi-ka to go completely limp before it lets go. The corpse falls to the floor with a dead thump. Dead. Finally.

It licks whatever this thing had for blood and brain matter off its lips, ecstatic and relieved. What a close call. What fun.

Too tired to finish destroying the house or pursue the small people, it drops the Draconic form and flees through the broken window, leaving some of its bloody intestines snagged on the broken rim of glass. It can grow that back later.

"Gladly!" Raven follows Seo thank heaven there is a back exit. The house is quiet now. She hears a dull thud somewhere back in the room and she really hopes its the nasty that just died.

But more so, she hopes it isn't too late to save Liliath.

An image, a dying thought. Mother's will. A beast. Ever changing. Hunt. HUNT. HUNT. HUNT. HUNT

kill.

Chew from her body, wings spreading. other creatures.... not relevant. Escaped? yes.... kill kill kill.

[The new Volatile neuters burst forth from her limp abdomen, and speed after the fleeing beast on buzzing wings, bodies filled with acids]

“She is already breathing .” The girl was moving a little then started coughing, she opend her eyes. Thank god she was alive.


-Liliath-
“Raven.” She smiled weakly , “I was almost with the angels.” “Raven I wanna go home.” She said soft and weak

Raven feels so relieved that she purrs. The soothing, rumbling sound intensifies as she rubs her head and side against Liliath's little face. "I'm so glad your alive." The comment starts as a shout but the falls into her whisper as her throat tightens.

“I felt so free.” She smiled “But now.” She sighed “I wanna go to bed , home to my mother.” She coughed “I don’t feel well.” “Is the killer still here?”

What's that? Buzzing, huh?

Without stopping, Vincent turns and see two large wings insects chasing him. It can't help but laugh. Tsi'ka has a lot of nasty tricks, and it loves tricks. Not only that, but it has a new shape to play with. Two shapes out of one prey, amazing!

If it wasn't so tired, it'd turn around and say hello, but it needs to rest and heal its damaged insides. Furthermore, Tsi'ka's venom is starting to take effect. It feels a little slow, uncoordinated.

But still fast enough to duck into another building, the inside perfectly out of sight of the buzzing killer bees.

Out of sight, out of place. The buzzing outside fades as the house shifts place and hides Vincent far away from Tsi'ka's drones.

It crawls into a small, creamy bed, curling up as the venom finally overtakes its muscles. It can't move anymore, and won't be able to for a long time, a few days at least. A week at most. This venom probably won't kill it, and even if it did, all would be alright.

Although this batch of prey would get away if it died.

No, this won't kill me, It thinks as the room goes black. Never has before. With that, it falls asleep content, the taste of Tsi'ka's death is fresh on its tongue and the knowledge that the town will protect it here in its wicked heart.

"No, no. The killer is not here," Raven says. "Tick kah tore him apart. Buggy, you should tell her-!?" She realizes that Tsi'ka hadn't followed them. "Buggy?" Is she...

She sits, stunned, and absentmindedly paws at a loose string on the bandages. Tsi'ka was weird, a little scary, even for Raven, but...

She's tough, right? She can't be dead.

“Buggy tried to kill me.” She said serious and sad “My best friend tried to..”. She started crying again

"What? No, Little. Buggy, she saved you. Tried to, anyways. The thing that tried to kill you was..." what? She has to have something to call it. "Thing" is too bland. "Nasty" is just okay. Hmm...

"Vincent! Vincent tried to kill you, and buggy fought him off."

Vincent is a good name. A normal name that doesn't strike fear into the hearts of mortal men, but has a sinister undertone to it that Raven is quite fond of. Proud of that name, she suddenly feels a little bit better, just for a moment forgetting, or at least coming to terms with, Tsi'ka's death and their own horrible circumstances.

“Buggy tried to kill me , not Vincent Who is even Vincent.” She said soft “Raven , What are we going to do now , I don’t wanna go back cause she will try to kill me again.”

Aaand Raven's grounded again.

"Liliath, I don't think you'll have to worry about Buggy killing us. I think she's..."

"...she's dead. Gone. Free. With the angels, whatever. And she died fighting whatever nasty thing stuck its claws in you. That's what Vincent is." She sighs. Let it go. Let the child believe whatever. "We find the others. Victi, Sage, Lisa(maybe)...other survivors. And we look for a way out of this little slice of Hell. Together."

Hearing that Tskia died , gave her a sad feeling . Tskia was her best friend “Hope they learn her in heaven , how not to kill people.”

“If we get out here can I stay with you?”

Raven chuckles; the girl's sentiment to Tsi'ka is funny, sad and heartwarming all at the same time. It also makes it even harder for her to again reject the girl's request. She considers lying, but that feels like a one-way ticket to Hell, so she answers with a noncommittal "We'll see."

To be honest, the weird mix of beasties she has met on this "adventure" has her wondering if they all even come from the same world, to begin with. Improbable, but not impossible, and kind of awesome if true. It's either that or her home Zeagni has a lot more to offer than what she first thought.

"So," she turns her attention to the new person, the probably-human adult that saved her and Liliath's lives. "What about you? Are you going to be with us?" She sits and shakes her paws, suddenly remember how heavy and uncomfortable wet fur is. Swimming, hah! What the heck was I thinking?

“Yeah why not someone needs to keep an eye on that kid , so she doesn’t drown again.” Seo laughed

“Raven I really wanna stay with you.” She heared the girl saying “Next time don’t swim in basements ok?” The girl seemed to ignore her and it seemed like she only payed attention to the cat “We should go to a house and try to find warm clothes for her.”

"Looting, obviously," Victi replies to Lisa, "this building was apparently a law enforcement facility, so they may have weapons, sturdy bags, emergency food, water, medical gear, other supplies, and people stuck here before us may have decided to hole up here and could have more stuff. I mean, on their corpses, they're probably dead, but still stuff.".

“Raven I wanna go to Lisa.” She sighed looked to the strange girl “Who are you?” She sounded curious and a little scared. The girl smiled “Seo .” “And What’s your name?” “That’s a secret only my best friends can now.” Liliath decide to whisper soft to Raven what her name was “Liliath.” She mumbled soft to Raven “We are not best friends , so I can’t say it to you.” Seo sighed “Okay , But we should go somewhere inside and fix warm clothes .”