[ there is at last some part of her that does recognize the fact stephen says wait at some point during their handoff. she's not entirely sure what for, or why he would bother, but she does hear it. that does not stop her from running off across the sand - does not stop the way her focus is entirely on the creature and its proximity to thancred, rather than anything else.
but stephen acts quickly enough, as does thancred - it wasn't all that long ago that they'd all been caught off by a similar attack (though there isn't much similar about it, other than the fact it is another creature drawn to the device, another creature willing to act to get in the way). the crimson of stephen's magic move faster than yennefer does, reaching the creature in time to keep it from retreating back into the sand, though its movements seem to at least be slower than they had been. she's fully aware that, with stephen's injuries, his magic won't hold. they need to figure this out quickly.
the creature lashes out with a tentacle, and yennefer is about to yell something to thancred about avoiding whatever pad it might have when she sees it catch onto his coat. she's never seen anything like this before, but that's hardly new - the creatures of this sphere are unlike any she's studied back home - but the logic of them should be the same. they will have their own motivations - kill them, before they kill you.
she grits her teeth a bit at thancred's words - this is brand new - of course it is, but also, that isn't helping. but before she really has the time to, she catches sight of the tentacle around the device just as thancred points towards it, and with a dodge and a side step, she's able to move out of the way of another of the creature's tentacle to drive her sword down across the tentacle that had wrapped itself around the device, sending it tumbling to the ground. ]
The back! [ she calls back to thancred, gesturing towards the back end of the creature, where there seems to be a part of it that glows with a dull light. she's assuming it's some kind of brain, or heart - something that is keeping it going.
if they're going to put an end to this thing (which she plans on doing), that's going to be their best bet. another of its tentacles goes for her, having recognize her as a thread alongside thancred, and she bats it away with her sword - unable to get a good angle to slice through it. they don't have much time. ]
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but stephen acts quickly enough, as does thancred - it wasn't all that long ago that they'd all been caught off by a similar attack (though there isn't much similar about it, other than the fact it is another creature drawn to the device, another creature willing to act to get in the way). the crimson of stephen's magic move faster than yennefer does, reaching the creature in time to keep it from retreating back into the sand, though its movements seem to at least be slower than they had been. she's fully aware that, with stephen's injuries, his magic won't hold. they need to figure this out quickly.
the creature lashes out with a tentacle, and yennefer is about to yell something to thancred about avoiding whatever pad it might have when she sees it catch onto his coat. she's never seen anything like this before, but that's hardly new - the creatures of this sphere are unlike any she's studied back home - but the logic of them should be the same. they will have their own motivations - kill them, before they kill you.
she grits her teeth a bit at thancred's words - this is brand new - of course it is, but also, that isn't helping. but before she really has the time to, she catches sight of the tentacle around the device just as thancred points towards it, and with a dodge and a side step, she's able to move out of the way of another of the creature's tentacle to drive her sword down across the tentacle that had wrapped itself around the device, sending it tumbling to the ground. ]
The back! [ she calls back to thancred, gesturing towards the back end of the creature, where there seems to be a part of it that glows with a dull light. she's assuming it's some kind of brain, or heart - something that is keeping it going.
if they're going to put an end to this thing (which she plans on doing), that's going to be their best bet. another of its tentacles goes for her, having recognize her as a thread alongside thancred, and she bats it away with her sword - unable to get a good angle to slice through it. they don't have much time. ]