[color=gray][center]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][table][row][/row][row][cell] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Odm0KTb.png[/img] [color=97bc88][i][b]Location[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] The Forest [color=97bc88][i][b]Interactions[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] [b][/b] Zhalia [@Benzaiten], Simon [@Prosaic], Manon [@PatientBean], Scott [@Blizz] [color=97bc88][i][b]School of Magic[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] Transmutation & Conjuration [color=97bc88][i][b]Pronous[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] they/them [color=97bc88][i][b]Items[/b] [color=bdbdbd]⋗[/color] [/i][/color] pouch with sand, pouch with various treats for rats [img]https://i.imgur.com/byrsbRB.png[/img][/cell][cell] [right] [color=2c2e2e]___[/color][img]https://i.imgur.com/ENfu0ok.gif[/img] [/right] [/cell][/row][/table][center]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/color] [indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent] [color=dimgray] Phalko flinched when the hound threw itself against Stormy's barricade but tried to not react the second time when the shield chipped. Better to not let the monster know it made some damage and that they were outmatched. Running was the only option. But what could they do, and how could Phalko help the others and increase their little group's chance of survival. Time was of the essennce. It clicked in their mind. As Manon and Stormy pointed out, their community needed to be warned. They in turn required shelter and protection. Phaklo mulled it over in their head, trying to guess how far they walked into the forest, to factor in the terrain and their slow pace. They went less than a mile, that they knew, possibly just more than half with the brush, their conversation and Simon's crutches. Only one of those things stood in Phalkos way now. Though straining themselves as extremly as they planned to would bite them in the ass later, they prefered that to the the fangs of the undead monster or worse. "[color=97bc88]I will run ahead, teleport as far as I can and alert others to us[/color]", they let the others know before taking off. They navigated their way through the trees at high speed, almost on autopilot, aware that Zhalia was right behind. Whenever Phalko tripped over a bramble they caught themselves just fast enough to keep their momentum up. After what felt like ten minutes they noticed some other sounds beside their own breath and running feet. The opressive silence of the forest was broken again by some songbird, they couldn't be far from the wall now. [color=4B5E44] Let's see what I've got in me[/color], they challenged themselves and took their first jump through space. Phalko's body tingled afterwards but they tried to stay oriented. Concentrating on a clear spot roughly 30 feet ahead from them they bend the ground they were standing on closer to it. Goosebumps begun rising on their skin as the earth under them changed again. They ignored the dryness of their mouth, filling their mind with only one goal: [color=4B5E44]Forward[/color]. They repeated this many more times, disregarding they body's pleas to slow down, to give it a break, teleporting more and faster than they had before today. As they saw the hole in the wall they smiled through the exhaustion and strained their eyes to make out their destination. Standing at the back of the covenstead they screamed into the night with what felt like their last breath: "[color=97bc88]Help! Anyone, help us, we're at the hole in the wall, it's coming from the forest![/color]". They believed and hoped that their voice was heard and they slumped to the ground against the wall of the building. Their body felt numb and the air in their lungs painful while they watched the forest and waited for the others to make it out. [/color] [/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]