[b][color=#d9145f]"...Oh,"[/color][/b] ID muttered after a long moment of silence, seeming to physically relax for the first time since her arrival.  With one last look towards the hole from which the frenzied creatures would likely emerge, she followed behind Raudd (at a respectable distance) through the inner circle.  The scarlet scales adorning her body slowly dissolved, and her eyes relaxed back to their original burgundy, though her gaze was no less intense.  Her eyes lingered on the runestone for a long time as she crossed the threshold, studying the patterns of mana flowing through and around it.

A static barrier strong enough to hold off an Apex was no small feat... literally, the scope of the barrier was enormous if it encircled the entire settlement.  [i]Mother[/i] would be interested in this.  ID kept a hand on the hilt of her Firebrand.  Even though fighting with a mage who commanded a territory as large as this one wasn't on her to-do list, she didn't relax her guard completely.  They seemed like nice enough people, but retreating to discuss business over tea and cakes while literal monsters terrorized the lands just outside the door was just a little too surreal for her to trust.  Someone with a more tenuous grasp of reality might question if this was real or not, but ID could read the writing on the stonework... its glow scraped uncomfortably bright against her traumatized [Dreamsight], causing her to squint a little.

ID fidgeted as she watched Zolya erect the barrier, feeling more and more like she'd just stepped into a spider's web.

[i][color=#d9145f]Well then... looks like there's nowhere else to run.[/color][/i]