With the spirit momentarily distracted, Liu set the professor down right on his feet and brushed him off ineffectually, informing him that [color=662d91]"I will extract the child so you may cut loose without receiving censure,"[/color] and blazing away once again across the loamy ground recently cleared of debris. Magic protected the fellow creature so Liu felt more secure in speeding away, for the time being. The skeletal form blurred once more and darted right through the center of the encounter, and then out of the edge of the clearing, but not all at the same speed. It was a white streak to the child, which he then picked up gingerly, and at first began to run at an entirely human speed. By the time he was out of the clearing, it was just a little faster than the fastest person, and over the entire trip to the outside of the forest, he crossed carefully into a blur and out of one, avoiding the spiny hazards carefully and scooping up the infant. Rapidly using his [Special Sense: Spatial], he stuck to a manageable range and located a nook of some kind, a den of herbivores or a hollow tree. He avoided tree branches as unfortunately crows have compunction when a vulnerable meal is presented.

Swiftly depositing the child there, he bundled his coat up and laid it on the child, trying to leave space to breathe, just to further muffle the sound and perhaps ward off insects. He stood once more and turned to face the forest, its dark corners and angry trees more intimidating now that he knew what was at stake. After a moment's reprise he moved to dart back to the fight, leaving the child behind him regardless of its response to it all. Children's cries grew unable to reach his heart long before he ever became a monster in form.

1. Fast B moving toward a location designated by:
2. Spatial Sense D
3. Deposit child using that information

Cooldowns:
0/4 B
1/3 C
0/2 D