Sliding down from the ledge, the young woman touched back down onto the sewer floor proper once again. The sound of tearing and crunching could be heard just some few feet away, and it made Guard Lady shudder. It was like some morbid, hellish chorus of the grotesque, a sound that you should never ever have to hear if you lived a normal life... Alas, going into sewers to slay overgrown rodents was anything but normal, and so this was one of the tolls one had to pay. Shaking the thought from her head, she began to move.

With cautious, yet hastened steps, the armored girl did her best to walk both quietly and briskly. Lingering too long near the feeding roaches would surely invite their attention. Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead as she passed by, holding her breath tightly, afraid to make even the slightest squeak. Sadly, her armor wasn't as quiet as Shade's clothes, but thanks to the feast's noises, she still managed to slip by unheard and unseen.

The walk back to where they had been was long. Far longer than she had remembered. Then again, they had been running at full speed when coming this way, so it was only natural that a trek at an average pace would feel far more elongated. The girl found herself constantly throwing a glance back over her shoulder, peering with narrowed eyes into the murky darkness... Not that she could see much, but she wouldn't let any foul bug sneak up on them. The pain in her neck and butt-bites still lingered though, and in fact it seemed to have gotten a bit worse the past few minutes, though that could simply be due to her moving about and upsetting the injured areas - so for now, toughing it out was the best option.

After a bit, she could finally see the faint glow in the distance. A welcome, warm light like a hearth on a cold, dark autumn day. She couldn't help but smile to herself, at least something had gone their way. After hearing the hooded boy's comment about a potential nest being located northward, she nodded and stepped past him as he had moved aside. Taking point and keeping the other safe was her job after all!

"Hey, archer." She said, turning slightly on her head to look back. "How many arrows do you have left? I know you took down a few rats earlier, but did you manage to recover those arrows?" This was asked mostly because they were now at the location where they had been ambushed before, and if the roaches hadn't gobbled up both the rat carcasses [i]and[/i] the arrows ldged in said corpses, then perhaps the foreign girl could reclaim them? After all, arrows cost money and any expenses they could mitigate would benefit everyone in the long run... Maybe.

She turned back to looking forward, steeled herself and began to move at an agreeable pace, halberd held at the ready in case of unwanted visitors.

"We should probably try to hurry, but not rush. I'm pretty sure that those big bugs weren't the only swarm of their kind down here." he halberdier frowned in a displeased grimace. She really didn't want to run into more of those things.