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[b]“-get out of the way!”[/b]

Snapping her head around, Clara met the eyes of a grotesque creature, the huge spikes along its back prickling up with each step. Though the monster was quick to attack, she heard the young girl's alert quicker. But Clara thought she had leapt out of the way from the spike projectiles too late — and judging by his scream, Zestasia too — but the man who she remembered as Pagonia was even faster to brandish his sword and deflect the spikes coming towards her and Lazulin.

Clara didn't have time to thank the man as she instinctively stepped away. The creature was going to attack again, she needed to stay far and stay low.

Clara cursed, knowing she was at an immediate disadvantage. It was just her luck that moments after she let herself see her crystal in years, a monster had appeared out of nowhere trying to kill them. Her lack of practice had surely dampened her technique, and there was little [I]Florentes Gemmae[/I] and [I]Loricatorum Vallis[/I] could do from afar. Unless she charged in with a crystallised branch and beat the damn thing to death, she wouldn't be much help.

With the rest of the group beginning to deliver a barrage of attacks, perhaps there would be a chance for Clara to find an opening for attack while the monster was distracted. How she would attack the monster was a totally different problem. She readied herself to use [i]Loricatorum Vallis[/i] if the spikes came her way again.