'I must get to her and apologise!'
Marionette wiped the pathetic look she had in her eyes and immediately scrambled back to her feet, her heart still full from Lillian's love-filled call for her earlier.
Getting back onto her feet, she took a step out from the corner she was hiding behind. The determined look on her face to confront Lillian suddenly hardened into a serious expression.
Danger!
With a spin to her left, Marionette threw her hand out, summoning a plain obsidian dagger. She then held it in front of her chest.
CLANG!
'What?!'
Clasped around the sides of her dagger were a pair of shadowy mandibles that belonged to an imposing dark centipede with red eyes; shock briefly flashed through Marionette's emotionless eyes, especially so when she got a taste of the monster's Predatory Aura.
Marionette's muscles tensed at the thick aura that enveloped her.
