[h3]Lissa[/h3]

[b]“Tch,”[/b] she clicked her tongue. [b]“You’re slipping, Lissa,”[/b] she muttered to herself, frowning as her chop connected with the creature’s tongue, but without enough follow through to hack it off. If she’d sliced it off completely, the Raam was quite sure that half of the threat would have been removed immediately. As it was, all she seemed to do was anger the beast as it prepared to do something. 

That something was some pretty suspicious sludge vomited at them; for a moment, Lissa prepared to knock herself and the entire stretcher-vehicle off course if they needed to, but thankfully the attack landed nowhere close enough for her to think of overturning the platform. 

Thankfully, they were on the run for long enough that they actually had reinforcements in the form of a few hunters.

Unfortunately, that meant they were also drawing a dangerous house-sized monster straight into an already vulnerable village. 

As they neared the village, Lissa decided to hop off the stretcher just before passing the hunters, immediately rolling into a ready position, making a quick announcement as she did so. [b]“Make way for the stretcher! You three, we need to defend the village. Chameleon-like beast, blends into the environment. Injured, but has a tongue with a nasty long reach, don’t get caught.”[/b] Elaborating for the benefit of the hunters so they knew what they were walking into, she pointed at a random villager nearby to delegate duties to. [b]“You there, run and get some more help! Four of us might not be enough to defend the village from that thing!”[/b]

As soon as she was done, her attention snapped right back to the chameleon, having used up what little precious time they had already. She placed herself between the hunters and the monster, sword up in a ready position before taking a position to strike while allowing the hunters to shoot it from behind her. Without any means of ranged attack, now that they were upon the village, passivity was no longer an option. She just hoped closing the distance was a good decision.