Demetri was about to shrug their worries off, until he looked back to the damned dogs to see them digging at the ground, and frowned with distaste.<strong>"SPREAD OUT!!!!"</strong>He barked out as he unsheathed his sword, and began backing away carefully.<strong>"Somethings burrowing up!"</strong>He snapped to the group, as he shields over himself, and looked around making sure he was in close enough distance of each of his allies. Once he deemed himself squared to each of them and far enough back from the area the dogs were digging at, he settled into a careful stance, with his sword over his shield and his shield in front of him. It was a stance he'd learned in Galtea, and one that had served him well anytime he was waiting for an unseen enemy.