Seeing that the ruby was not going back into place Lila gave up. Unfortunately the events she appeared to set into motion were not finished. The runes appeared and spread across her body. Before she could drop the object it dug into her palm. What was unfolding before her eyes was beyond her understanding. Was this magic? A curse? Did such things even exist? Of course that thought gave way to fear and panic when the spider woman felt constricted from what appeared to be nothing.

As if that was not enough the voice of a child came to her ears. There didn't appear to be anyone above her where the voice seemed to come from. It was the words though that caught her attention. Eating her friends was something that she wanted to avoid. The mention of turning to stone struck a nerve. Was that where the statues here had come from? She was going to become forever stone.

It was all becoming clearer but the sealing stone was not through. Lila's companions flashed in red in her vision as she was given a command. [i]Kill them.[/i] The order was counter to her purpose, but very much spoke to her base instincts. Since the start of their journey she had not had a chance to feed on anything fresh. Try as she might the combine call to attack overcame her rational thought. 

Exactly what everyone was doing was not important. Immobilizing them all with a bite wouldn't be possible, but several were already crippled in one way or another. The motion of Clavic caught her attention and Lila dropped down from the treetops to cut off his escape.