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[color=34c9cd]"Time to TP the dragon's house![/color]

[color=888888]— Luana Roycroft[/color][/center]

[@Rune_Alchemist][@Crimson Paladin]

An ambush was coming, but from where was the question. The lower light and familiarity of the cave would have made a great spot for an ambush. Though the point of an ambush was to catch your opponent off guard, and performing an attack at the mouth of the cave did just that. The drake had retracted its claws and hid in some fresh vegetation to conceal its tracks. Or perhaps it had enough time to enter the burrow and come out the other side to wait for an ambush. Either way Luana was able to detect the drake in time, and thanks to Ethelred 's suggestion, they had a defensible position. That didn't mean Luana could dawdle. 

Every second counted.

[color=34c9cd]"It's here!"[/color] Luana swung her spear into one of the freshly grown trees to alter its growth. With a jolt of her drudic magic, Its lower most branches expanded outwards to obstruct Lonan's back from the incoming predator. She didn't stop with just one tree, she smacked another, and another, always trying to keep some branches between Lonan and the drake. She didn't imagine he would need to be told where the drake was, with the branches snapping and decaying behind him. 

On the last tree, she had it launch a branch straight out towards the Drake's head and attempted to make it wrap around its face. But Luana held her hand against the trunk of the tree this time. This wasn't to manipulate the tree's growth in a meaningful way, but she was sure it would try to claw the branch off of its face. If she focused her magic into the branch, could she actively fight the drake's cursed claws?