Umi froze, blood cold as a glacial lake even though her heart felt about to rip it's way out of her breast.<br/><br/>This was not mystery, or carnage, or the fear of a foe.  This was more unatural than wizard fire or poison cloud, any of those things she could deal with on some level, react too in some rational or at least natural way.<br/><br/>But this void, this utter absence of life, was so terifyingly unatural that she paniced completly and, after a few horified moments of shaking 'til her teeth chattered, she proved how utterly terified she was by doing the stupidest, most counterintuitive thing possible.<br/><br/>She walked into the middle of the camp and grabbed the parchment.