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"I'll stay by in case you trip," Vel nodded, "I wanna keep my claws ready in case something happens."

It'd be hard to defend if she was busy keeping d**k up. When Selene ran by to check on d**k, she watched her for a moment. Though a bit of a coward, she was a good girl. Well. That was what she thought until Selene just left without actually helping d**k at all.

"She was sure useful. We should enlist her as a healer," she said rather sarcastically.

Glancing over at Malcom, she smirked and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah. It's ours. And we're going to fight to keep it that way. QUIN. I'm going in. Get ready to get wild cuz I bet this is gonna be a good one," she smirked before moving on in once d**k was ready.

((Exit))

d**k snorted at the comment about Selene being a healer for the Defenders. "Why bother? We have Cricket - not that she does much more." She was actually a rather lazy healer, he'd confess to nobody. In fact, it was only because the ghostly ghoul wasn't there he was brave enough to mention that facet of her personality at all.

"But as nice as it would be for you to not be able to keep your hands off me, they have more important places to be right now." Like protecting ********' Amityville. d**k found himself nodding in agreement with Malcolm as well. It was THEIR cavern - treasure or not!

And if someone was going to threaten them over it, there was a damned good reason for it. He was going to find out.

"Better get myself ready for this party,though." he smirked, looking to Vel as he half dragged himself along with her. He had chosen the bestest partner ever for this.

[[Exit]]

As the encounter progressed, Taru withdrew, stepping cautiously backward, watching everyone fight. Watching everyone take a stand.

She wasn't so sure that this was the time to fight anymore. They were outmatched here. And there was a very definitive difference between standing up and fighting...and suicide. There wouldn't be anyone left to fight if they all made the wrong decision here.

Swallowing hard, Taru squeezed Bee to her chest and walked away from the cave. She wouldn't be joining the Defenders. Not this time.



Though she stood by her choice, she couldn't help hoping that she was wrong. For Bee's sake. Yeah.

[exit]

It wasn't hard to imagine where she was going. Quin would follow her friends to the bitter end. "Right behind ya," She shouted to Vel following the undead raptor further into the caves.

((exit))

Tex scowled, trying to figure out something that had been bothering him for a long, long time. Sure, he'd gotten that text from Quibble, and he was going--but there was something...

His papa would KILL him if he knew he'd just stood to the side while others were fighting. DETH had always been a way of rebelling, a way of saying that his old man's view on violence was too easy--too brutal. Tex knew that Vegas was perfectly fine with violence in his bar, or in his old work as a reaper. But Tex had never agreed with it. NEVER. And it was no way of life for Austin--who had a violent streak of his own--to be raised! A man didn't need to be violent to be a man, Tex had always sworn to that fact.

But a man shouldn't hang in the shadows, letting others do the fighting for him, either. And they'd even been freed without his effort making a difference. He was a pathetic excuse for a Scythe, he thought with self disgust. His papa would say the same. But he still believed in DETH. Just... needed to figure out how to compromise between DETH and the beliefs he'd been raised with--even though he'd been running from those beliefs for years.

He needed to do it before he graduated, too, he decided as he headed out the cave. Because they were right. After graduation there wouldn't be any professors to call on.

[EXIT]

Rather than listen to the man's words, the behemoth did the exact opposite, following the other defenders.

As if they could just obediently wipe this incident from their minds! Was the reaper crazy? And what made him boss of this cave? Last he checked it was sitting right underneath the Amityville school! If it was anyone's property, it was Amityville's.

if there was anything Avery had learned--anything at all from this whole event, it was that this man was a threat. A threat that needed to be taken care of.

Exiting!

The encounter had raised more questions than it had answered. That was about standard, Ren noted pessimistically. He hadn't taken any treasure. But the stranger's words still intrigued him.

He stayed in the passageway a long time, considering his options; finally, he followed the other students out.

[Exit]

"Once a defender, always a defender." Pyre mumbled her own personal motto to herself, nursing her own small hand wound. She would much rather be bleeding than be immobilized by whatever shocking power that reaper had. "I trust that man only as far as i can throw him." The phoenix said out loud, more mumblings to herself, squaring her shoulders as she made her decision. Yeah, Cave here we come.



[exit]