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The knives were held loosely in Myr's hands, but not so loosely that she was liable to lose her grip on them. Predatory beasts, was it? She had not encountered such things on her way here, and thus suspected that in all likelihood they were not the sort of creatures who bothered attacking the solitary. Perhaps it was her very solitude that had brought about her safety then. A curious thing, given the popularity of that adage about safety in groups or something of the sort. Some of the idioms that the monks didn't use were still a bit lost on her.

The Karesh mountains had some fell beasts, but they did not frequently trouble the temple at Kur for whatever reason. some claimed it was divine protection, others that it would simply be an unsound strategy for the feline species that resided there to take on a battle-trained monk rather than a deer. The intelligence to consider this was never put beyond the hunting cats, and for this, they were much admired.

But Shadow was signaling that there were many creatures, not one, and thus it had to be another manner of animal entirely. If she listened, Myr could hear the huffed breathing of many bellows-like lungs, the whisper of feet on the forest floor. Four-legged, most likely, and large. Beyond that, she could not say. The red-eyes man took a few more steps forward, but Myr remained where she was even as Kain moved off to one side. She had not seen the latter's request not to kill the creatures, but she was perhaps the only one who would not need to, as her code prevented her from taking life in general, beyond what was necessary to sustain hers. Even then, plants were treated with reverence too.

She could not feign to exact knowledge of what was running through her companions' minds, but she knew enough to say that Shadow separating himself from them was creating a target of some sort, and she would not interfere if that's what he thought would work here. So Myr simply waited, patient as the river that works the rough surface of stubborn stone to an irrevocable smoothness.