[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
[color=F0E68C]“Yes, we are well hidden. We will have to time our ambush very well to be effective, however,”[/color] Asteria whispered. [color=F0E68C]“The goblins are still some distance away, but approaching steadily,”[/color] she commented quietly after squinting for a while and only making out their enemies’ torches. She then remembered the four poisoned bone needles were still on the ground, in plain sight. Leaving them so obviously in the open would only reveal that monsters were nearby. Cautiously and as silently as she managed, she climbed out of the hole, gathered the four bone needles by carefully wrapping her tail around their handles, handling them delicately so not to get poisoned herself, then took them into the hole, where she crouched back into a prone position. She placed the four poisoned bone needles to the side of the hole, where she could still easily reach them, but none of the  Dire rats would accidentally step on them or something.

[color=F0E68C]“Do you have any good idea what to do with these four poisoned needles? I made them beforehand, but…”[/color] she murmured trailing of. [color=F0E68C]“A trap would be inefficient and too conspicuous, I believe. Perhaps if we could fashion ourselves a stinger as a scorpion might have,”[/color] she muttered doubtfully. She thought she had time enough to test her tail’s strength and flexibility, however. Asteria swung her tail from left to right, forward and backward. She checked whether the goblins had approached into what she’d consider danger zone and decided they had not yet. Crouched, she aimed her tail at the rear wall of the dug-out hole and smashed the appendage lengthwise into it. She assessed the damage to the wall and waited out the pain from purposefully battering a relatively vulnerable part of her anatomy at something solid. Then she brought her tail forwards in several quick attempts at a thrust, ‘attacking’ the empty air, only so she could feel how her tail responded to such a manipulation. 

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