Looking at the girl cautiously Luka approached her slowly, she was panicked but if she kept being loud like this she was only going to attract more of them. It was always a strange habit of humans, when they were in the most danger they made the loudest noises. When she grabbed his hand he flinched visibly and jerked back, though this was mostly a reflex rather than any actual fear or desire to get away from her. “You need to calm down.” He replied slowly, keeping his voice level and calm. “You’re not thinking clearly. It’s the middle of the night and you’re lost in a strange forest. You don’t even know where ‘back’ is.”
 
He did. But he wasn’t about to go crossing the wall willingly either. “This way.” Reversing the grip on her wrist Luka looked around himself before he began leading her in a seemingly random direction. “They’re too active at night and with all that noise you made you’re pretty much announcing your presence to them. You’ll never make it back during the dark.” He stopped at a tree and moved aside slightly for her, indicating to the small dark gap between the roots, leading to a small hole beneath the ground.
 
“Don’t worry, they can’t fit through here. Too small.” He seemed confident, but didn’t want to mention they could probably dig them out if they wanted to. “Go on.” He encouraged, taking a step back and moving out of the way for her. All around them he could hear the noises of the daemons, although they were far away their cries tended to carry exceptionally well. They were hunting noises though, not the same as the ones they made when fighting, which had now ceased, meaning Cade and his combatant had finished fighting, probably because they realised their meal had gotten away.
 
“Or you can take your chances out there with them.” Luka offered, indicating to the darkness and, honestly, without the sun to guide her he highly doubted she’d be able to stumble back upon the wall in the darkness without running into a daemon first.