Snippet #2281518

Mew's high pitched squealing pierced the air as she weakly batted at the rodents, feeling them overwhelming her. A large gash on her upper arm bled rapidly and she felt bruises forming on her side. More wounds would come as her strength to fend the animals off withered and her will to keep up her invisibility spell dwindled in kind. Not that it had been much use, the creatures had been alert to her presence the entire time, chasing her glowing gem. Why was it glowing like that?

A part of her wanted to simply take off the gem and throw it away so she could hide from the creatures, but if it was so damned important it had attracted these strange rodents in such a frenzied force, she wasn't going to part with it. It must be valuable...or powerful... probably both. At least she assumed the animals were after the gem. Of all the people the rats could be targeting, it was her and a scant few others. Did they carry gems like that? All this for a stupid gem she'd found lying unwanted in the woods, huh?

It was then that she heard a voice calling out, presumably to her, about safety in numbers. Shortly after that, the same voice yelled out about the rats being after those with the gems. So Mew was correct in her assumptions. She began searching frantically among the commotion for the owner of the voice, darting between diving rodents all the while.

"Mew, mew, mew!" she wailed in panic, her eyes wide with terror. Finally, her eyes locked on a woman with blue hair, a glowing gem at her neck, fighting off the rodents as hard as Mew was. The catling began racing over towards the other woman, resulting in one of the creatures clawing at her back viciously. Mew squealed in pain as blood poured from the open wound.

"What the hell do these guys want? Why are they after the gems?" Mew asked the stranger as she approached her. Mew swiped down another of the rodents after she had finished her sentence, her claws dripping blood. She would need to escape this place promptly and attend to her injuries, especially the one on her back. She wished her brother had taught her some healing spells, that would sure have come in handy right about now.