[@Stabby] [@Zeroth]

Femus listened and thought.  For several long moments, he hardly moved as he debated and considered the details and the odds.  He wanted to get this over with.  He needed a safe place to do it.  There wasn't a known safe place nearby.  All they could do is to head away from danger and keep their eyes open.

"You're right.  Let's... get some distance between us and these goblins."

Femus was normally very steady and decisive.  But, the prospect of a forced evolution and the pressure of having so little knowledge to work with was shaking his nerve more than he could completely hide.  His voice had a subtle tremor to it and an unusually thin tone, as though it were a bubble on the verge of breaking.  But, more than all these signs of disquiet, there was one thing that made his current uncertainty terribly clear.

He waited to follow Nira's lead.