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    Eight frowned. Why was everyone so keen on protecting her. Her eyes were focused on the larger forms in front of her, so she didn't even notice that Vigenere was speaking to her telepathically (frankly, she'd be panicking even more if she did notice). Eight blinked, taking an evasive stance. Well. If they wanted her to stay out of the fight, she could do that. She spent hours on end on dodging tests, who said she couldn't dodge a giant lizard? This would be easy.

  She blinked, watery eyes shaking as she watched Fenrisulfer take stance over her. She never did like the idea of anything standing over her, especially with thousands of twisting halls full of Octo Stamps and Flooders, but she was too tense to move. Her tentacles on her head twitched in anticipation, two tangling together and feeling her own blood rush underneath the surface. This was real life. There was no coming back from this if she lost blood. Even underground, they never drew blood as punishment, they only splatted her; forced her down to a simpler form and brought her back to a safe 'checkpoint'. She doens't know if she's ever drawn blood before. Frankly... she doesn't want to remember.

"SPEECH"

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Oh boy, the one time she sneaks out of camp is the one time a feral dinosaur is lose in the place. How bothersome! Tail lashing nervously, the panther cub wearily stalked closer to Fenrisulfur, joining Eight behind her father's protective bulk. The feral utahraptor was big and could probably eat her up in one gulp, a terrifying realization. "Lots of animals don't like fire, maybe we should light the forest on fire?" she mumbled, glancing from the feral beast to her dad for a moment. It seemed like a crazy idea, to burn the territory to get rid of one creature, but she knew her dad's power over fire would prevent any of them from getting hurt by the flames. And, well, there was no telling when and how the bigass lizard was going to hurt them.

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☾ IOTA [abbr="Oni speech, Oni thoughts, Oni reference"]x[/abbr] info [abbr="speech; self-reference; thoughts;"]x[/abbr] FIREBRAND ☾

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"What the hell's goin' on here?"

Emerald eyes appeared as Iota approached the gaggle of Tanglers, quite confused about the ongoing ruckus. She couldn't go [b]a single day without something strange and unusual happening in the clan, couldn't she? Although, strange and unusual is pretty much the norm for the group of gathered castaways. The medical trainee was quite surprised to find the culprit of the sudden burst of attention: a raptor. The last time she'd seen one of these was in her books in the library -- and even then, these things died off some, what, billion years ago? It wasn't too far-fetched of a find, however -- they had a literal dragon in their clan now, so this shouldn't have been quite the surprise that it was.

However... something was, how could she put it... amiss with this particular creature, in that it seemingly lacked the sort of intelligence that her comrades possessed. It seemed feral, almost a primal creature, as if it came directly from the past. In some ways, it felt like her old self -- she shuddered at that thought. Had she really been this mentally withdrawn?

In any case, the raptor being around her comrades was nothing to reminisce about at the moment -- that would be too much of their valuable time cast out of the window. Instead, Iota assumed the position of a fighting stance, one that she should have given up long ago, as a means to protect those who she loved. The medical trainee wouldn't let anything happen to her family, no matter the cost.

Her ears perked at the sudden remark of the nearby Hati. She pinged her telepathically, speaking to her with her mind so as to not continue to startle the dinosaur. What are you, crazy? That would only destroy our home as well. We can't risk burning down our territory just to drive off one creature. We just need to wait for it to leave... or for someone to kill it first. She began to cold-sweat at that thought. Raptors are horrid creatures... She would never be able to forgive herself if it slaughtered any of her comrades.