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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5709295" data-attributes="member: 4936">Nia sagged back against a wagon as adrenalin fled, leaving her weak and drained. Shelob pawed her ankle with a leg, and she stooped over to pick the spider up and place it on her shoulder. Shelob got nervous on the ground with so many people around.She took a deep breath to try to control her wildly fluctuating emotions. They kept teetering between abject relief at having somehow cheated death, and livid rage at having been put in this situation to begin with. At first the rage seethed towards the idiot people in the inn who hadn't the sense of a beast to run before the swarm...but then Nia realized there was a deeper enemy at work here.The fire beetles didn't do that for no reason. Someone, or something, had attacked their nest. Nothing natural would do that. Even the great predators knew better than to rouse a colony of beetles. Attack them singly, or in small groups when away from the nest, yes...but the nest itself? Suicide.And it had just happened to move in the direction of the roadside inn. Coincidence?She frowned deeply as she pushed away from the wagon and went to see if anyone needed help or healing.</blockquote>