Lily's fur was matted with blood and her eyes wide with shock. She had never seen a Hase kill anything and certainly not with deadly accuracy as Jax had the snakes that came after them. She had been terrified to look but terrified not to keep her eyes open as the beasts seemed to spring out of the ground like trees. Her instinct was to scurry away, darting a zig zag pattern across the landscape, but Jax had forbidden it. The slender white Hase had huddled miserably close to his feet, wide eyed with horror as what felt like multitudes of snakes lay around them in a shivering circle. Nasty thing about snakes that even after they were dead, their bodies kept moving. She shuddered.<br/><br/>This cavern was teaming with snakes and not just snakes, as she had seen in the open plain but these serpents were different somehow. More evolved, she thought, looking at the expressionless expression on their faces, their bodies looked bulked up as if they worked out and took those cheating drugs that she had often heard of with distaste, steroids. This final bastion looked determined skilled, ruthless and in no way afraid of the power that Raschen possessed. She was so freaked out at the way even the Earth trembled at his power and these goons were as cool as if he were a mere rock on the floor.<br/><br/>Jax and the two Kyote maneuvered her behind them and then the three males pressed their backs to her, forming a phalanx. Each held his weapon at ready, protecting her as well as Raschen's back. She hadn't seen Taryn since the whole thing started and hadn't seen any evidence of her in the chamber, now she couldn't see anything but dusty fur.