Jötz could only watch in a mix of horror and annoyance as she climbed the tree and crawled out upon the limb for a better view. The Jaeger could only shake his head in frustration as he leaned against the ruin of the wall to wait for her to do... whatever the hell it was she thought she was doing. Most people thought Jaegerkin incapable of retreating. This was patently untrue! Jötz and his fellows had no problem with retreating when the situation called for it, because retreating meant you were falling back into a better tactical position; it was true that they would never be routed, however. A Jaeger who had no way out and knew it would just keep fighting on both for the thrill of it and because they never surrendered either. He had been perfectly fine with running away from the toads. Jötz had no real quarrel with them. Only now they were back at the site they had just retreated from, Ivy trying to covertly spy upon-

The sonic croak that interrupted his internal grumblings was truly titanic in nature, causing the wall he had been leaning against to crumbly away from the force of the reverberations. The falling tree trunk demolished the rest of the stone structure, leaving Jötz exposed and surprised as he faced what he could only assume was the mother of all blue, slimy, fanged toads. The creature let out another deafening bellow at the sight of him standing there wide-eyed in shock. This time it was Ivy who grabbed his hand to yank him away at a dead run from the enraged amphibian, and disorientated by the speed in which this had all just happened Jötz stumbled along after her until he finally found his footing.

Sure of his balance and speed once more, he scooped Ivy up over his shoulder while passing her the gun. Even as he sped along the swampy ground, he could hear the sound of the toad now following after them with little splishing splashing sounds as they hopped after at great speed. "I run! You fire!" he yelled to the girl as he dodged around a large boulder. He couldn't be sure at the speed with which he was running, but he thought it vaguely resembled a building's cornerstone. Had there been more structures here once? As interesting as the idea of building a town in the middle of a stinking fen was, the Jaeger was far more concerned with finding their way out of the swamp and away from these creatures. It was hard to tell which direction there were headed in. The canopy of thick willow and elm trees prevented him from seeing the starts to help guide them; with luck, they wouldn't end up going in circles to end up back at Motorhum!