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[color=8dc73f]"W-what?! What are you-"[/color] Maxie stopped short when her mind caught up and took in Taka's words. While she had been fighting the creature, and busy with this troubling police dog at her side, she'd totally forgotten about the strangers all around her. She felt her whole body stiffen. She stood to her feet, made an attempt to look at the other people, but found her gaze quickly and nervously shifting back down to the ground.
The chronic social anxiety was coming back now. Strong. Especially now that she realized how many times she must've looked incredibly dumb messing around with this dog, or pretty much just hurling stray animals at a giant demonic creature.
Maxie felt her feet taking some steps backwards. She could feel eyes on her. She didn't know if it was just her imagination, or all these other people were really staring at her, but she couldn't bring herself to look back up and find out. Instead, she just looked at the ground, Or at the police dog, who eyes her curiously. During this moment of awkwardness, she studied the dog's vest for once, and found a name tag on his collar. Printed in letters big enough for her to read without crouching was the name [color=f26522]"Marathon"[/color].