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[color=6ecff6]"I see your point, Sir Lonan,"[/color] Ethelred acknowledged.  [color=6ecff6]"We head back, and it'll give the thing an opportunity to ambush us."[/color]

This monster was proving a difficult foe.  It was fast enough to be able to withdraw from a fight at any time with impunity, and then re-enter it in the blink of an eye.  It could kill with a single scratch, and its wounds didn't seem to be slowing it down.

[color=6ecff6]"The wyvern has a massive advantage in mobility.  It knows it can jump in, try to kill one of us with but a scratch, withdraw just as quickly as it appeared, then repeat at its leisure,"[/color] he assessed.  [color=6ecff6]"But for all its swiftness, it's ground-bound."[/color]

Ethelred stuck the tip of his lance into the ground and began to slowly freeze the ground around it, slowly enough that if the others asked him to stop, he could.  [color=6ecff6]"If we're stuck here, we might as well make the battlefield more suitable for us.  Between your water, my ice, and Luana's plants, perhaps we could reshape the terrain to be more advantageous to us- or disadvantageous to our foe.  If that thing can't get a good grip on the ground, it won't be nearly as mobile.  And if we somehow knew which direction it'd be attacking from next, we could prepare a nasty trap."[/color]

As he awaited their feedback, Ethelred continued to look around, scanning the area for that beast.  With the way it could jump in at a moment's notice, with the way it could kill with just a scratch, he could not let his guard down for even a moment.

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