Eva had separated from the thugs gang to try and save the people from the spider.  With the spiders around, it was safer to travel in packs, even if it was with thugs who'd beat you, which was largely responsible for Eva's mental problems.  The symbols were a separate issue that will be explained later.<br/><br/>Eva remembered a scene from Tolkien and braced her sword on the ground where she expected the spider to try and grab her.  As the spider rushed from the hole and tried to grab her, it impaled itself on the sword.  "SSKKweeeee!", it screamed, then backed off the sword and circled her.  It was badly wounded and might yet die of its wound, but spiders are hard to kill.  Rushing too fast to avoid, it knocked the sword aside as it knocked Eva down.  She barely retained her grip on the sword, but the spider had her pinned.  Four of it's legs held her arms and legs, spread-eagled, while a long, hard, throbbing slime covered organ emerged from the tip of its abdomen.<br/><br/>She'd seen this before.  This wasn't a male trying to rape her.  This female was going to shove that thing 3 feet up her ass and fill her with hundreds of eggs, that would eat her from the inside out, a special power given them by the aliens.