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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyscribe" data-source="post: 2116302" data-attributes="member: 5808">Day 17Evening is falling when Benedic abruptly signals for a halt.Faintly on a breeze comes a distinctive clicking noise.  Click.  C-click.  Click click.  Click.It sounds vaguely familiar.Click.  Click Click.Yep.  They’ve definitely heard that sound before.  “Shocker lizards?” Lira asks.Benedic grins and gives her a squeeze on the shoulder.  “Good girl.” He whispers.  “They don’t sound too close, but there must be a hell of a lot of them.”“Should we go around, or try to scare them off?” Annika asks.“Do I get a vote?” Eva mutters, eying Thatch who is already gripping his sword.Much to Thatch’s disappointment, Kiara flies ahead in swallow form to scout a safe path.  Anvil, meanwhile, asks Kettenek if weal or woe will befall them if they continue on their present path.Again, the ground answers, “Woe.”Annika watches anxiously, eyes glued to the small dark spot of Kiara’s silhouette against the darkening sky.  The young girl’s voice is in her head, keeping up the low-grade background noise she has grown accustomed to since the two of them were bonded.Then, Kiara’s voice pops out of the background.  “Huh?...  Eeeww!... Cool...”Kiara arcs in a large circle, designating a safe path around the lizards.###As the clicking noise fades behind them, Kiara rejoins the party, morphing back into her humanoid form.“Oh my gods, it was so cool!” she enthuses.  Benedic gestures for her to hold her voice down and she quickly complies, dropping into an excited whisper.  “There must have been at least fifty of them, all glowing blue and sparking at each other.  And they were all over this huge carcass.  It looked like a giant crab, but almost as big as a lakewader.”“That big?” Reyu asks.“Well,” Kiara considers, “maybe not.  But huge.  Oh, you should have seen it…”</blockquote>

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