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>Neyath sensed the big fish a moment before it attacked. It was beneath her, buried in the sand, and if she had been forced to rely upon crude eyesight, its circular, grinding maw would have been fixed on her left leg before she had even noticed it.
>Instead, she felt the voltaic thrum of its muscles tightening, and the subtle shift in water pressure was like a soft breeze on her skin.
>‘It's a dhyr'vasc!’ the Thrall cried, hurling herself away just as the beast's winding body arched up at her, trying to enclose her in its rough coils. The words were carried through the water by the magic of the ethersea. They were not for the benefit of her fellow Namarti, who were already scattering, bringing lanmari blades and coralcraft bows to bear.
>The warning was for Thrallmaster Iyuden, who reacted just a fraction slower than his charges. The Namarti could have left him to perish, had they wished it. He was a skilled warrior, more than capable of cutting down half a dozen of them, but he did not know the ways of the kelp-forests nearly as well as they, and he had been caught off-guard. The dhyr'vasc was on him.
>Instead, she felt the voltaic thrum of its muscles tightening, and the subtle shift in water pressure was like a soft breeze on her skin.
>‘It's a dhyr'vasc!’ the Thrall cried, hurling herself away just as the beast's winding body arched up at her, trying to enclose her in its rough coils. The words were carried through the water by the magic of the ethersea. They were not for the benefit of her fellow Namarti, who were already scattering, bringing lanmari blades and coralcraft bows to bear.
>The warning was for Thrallmaster Iyuden, who reacted just a fraction slower than his charges. The Namarti could have left him to perish, had they wished it. He was a skilled warrior, more than capable of cutting down half a dozen of them, but he did not know the ways of the kelp-forests nearly as well as they, and he had been caught off-guard. The dhyr'vasc was on him.
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