[ Thankfully, it's too dark for Caitlyn to see the look of utter offense she gets from Sevika when she has the audacity to put her arm out like that, as if she's protecting her and not the other way around. Of all the...
But the creature is moving. So is Caitlyn. That means that Sevika, too, moves, similarly circling the tree while the trunk is kept to their back. It carries on with its circuit until they've all done one big circle around the tree.
Then, it stops rather than leaving. There's a soft sniffing sound, followed by a low growl; quiet sounds for something that big in a place so silent may as well be bone-rattling screams, though, and even Sevika finds herself worrying they've been found out.
She holds her breath, waiting, waiting... and then there's the scuff of its feet on the cavern floor, turning away, footsteps receding. It feels like forever for it to leave but, eventually, it does. ]
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But the creature is moving. So is Caitlyn. That means that Sevika, too, moves, similarly circling the tree while the trunk is kept to their back. It carries on with its circuit until they've all done one big circle around the tree.
Then, it stops rather than leaving. There's a soft sniffing sound, followed by a low growl; quiet sounds for something that big in a place so silent may as well be bone-rattling screams, though, and even Sevika finds herself worrying they've been found out.
She holds her breath, waiting, waiting... and then there's the scuff of its feet on the cavern floor, turning away, footsteps receding. It feels like forever for it to leave but, eventually, it does. ]