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[h3]Eastern Yharnam, outside the Hunter's clinic[/h3]
“Not in the clinic, no,” Victor confirmed grimly, staring distrustfully at the spot where he had just barely been able to sense the presence of the being that had taken Raine. The question he had asked himself, and which would probably also be on Adelicia's mind if she had not completely abandoned reason already, was whether the entity was still there. But no matter how invisible this thing was, Victor could not imagine that something that big would be able to move a lot without him noticing it. He would have heard it, or felt it, or smelled it... or something. A creature of that size had to make itself known when moving.
Or so he would have thought, had he not heard Raine's voice being silenced as he vanished into thin air. Who was to say that this thing did not have the ability to cancel sound as well as fade from sight? Or some manner of arcane movement that did not follow the rules of men and beasts?
He had to know...

Victor hung his blunderbuss from its place in his belt once again as he crouched down, before using his left hand to brush over the cobbled street, examining it with his fingers and prodding at the crevices between the stones.
“That's definitely a possibility,” he replied to Adelicia's realization that they were most likely in danger. “I can't fight this thing, whatever it is. Raine was completely helpless. We could try to run, but it could be anywhere. There could be more than one.” He clenched his jaw, taking a deep breath before looking over his shoulder at the woman. “But panicking doesn't help, it'll just get us killed.”

He straightened, his left hand loaded with more than a dozen loose pebbles picked from the road, and looked around with all the suspicion of a man who had been haunted by paranoia for years. Bending his knees slightly, readying himself to quickstep at the first sign of danger, he made a broad sweeping motion with his left hand in the direction of the door of the clinic, sending several pebbles flying in that direction... but much to his relief nothing strange happened; the pebbles just clattered against the wall and went through the open doorway.
“Whatever it was, it was [I]huge[/I],” he stated without looking at Adelicia, instead turning his attention back to the spot at the edge of the plateau where Raine had been snatched. “Much too big to fit inside this building. If we can get inside, we might be safe.” [I]Presuming it doesn't just crush the building, of course... and that whoever is fighting inside isn't just as dangerous.[/I]
Holding his breath Victor swung his left hand again, this time toward the ledge, and threw the last of the pebbles he had collected. Just as he had suspected most of them just disappeared into the creeping gloom of the setting sun, but two pebbles toward the middle of the arc they had been thrown in seemed to simply stop mid-air, as if hitting a solid obstacle, before falling away.
“It hasn't moved,” he observed out loud, his voice as tense as his body as he remained prepared to dodge in case the entity decided to retaliate against him throwing things at it. Nothing seemed to happen, though, which probably made sense; a create that large probably would not even feel something as minor as a couple of pebbles being thrown at it. “I'll follow your lead and protect you, saint, but I suggest we go inside. I can fight beasts and men. We will have to get you to safety before we worry about Raine.”