Due to the sheer amounts of Eclipsed prowling around, the two had to split up and take care of them.
Unlike during the Academy's test, Ayla didn't have to worry about separating from Nox, after all, according to her words,
He was a bit less weaker than before.
Each had started from a different end of the settlement, far from the center, least they risked whatever was under that pile sensing them.
Nox, or rather, The Grey Warden, started just a bit outside the settlement. They had wondered whether or not these Eclipsed had a hive mind since they seemed to be controlled by something.
The solution to that was...bait.
And unfortunately, he was it. He had to pull their attention towards him, and in case they didn't have a linked mind, all of it would be focused on him.
Sounds fun.
Since they couldn't sense him with the mask on, he slowly willed it to come off and the moment it did, the heads of all the Eclipsed around snapped towards him.
