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A black shape rushes out of the dark. The spider threatening Cedric is thrown into the wall as Kh'khechil pushes past him to get to you. Lisel right behind him, dagger in hand. The chemist gets behind the spider as it writhes on the floor and grimly thrusts her blade into his head were the control sheet feeds in. She backs up as the monster convulses and curls into a twitching heap.
You hold on as you and the bat are grasped and turned over. Keeping the chain taut and your bite firm, you lay beneath the bat and look up as Kh'khechil leans over you. His beetle face inscrutable, he calmly pulls the spider blade out of the bat's shoulder and replaces it in his eye. A thin hiss trickles from between the bat's bared teeth as he slumps against you, the glow of his other eye fading.
While the beetle helps you out from under the corpse the clashing of blades ends in a wet crunch. Dis has finally gotten a lucky strike in, and two spider limbs now end in ragged stumps. The half squirrel pushes the spider staggering away, panting heavily as she catches her breath.
The spider jerkingly whips her head around, one eye dark and its neighbor's flickering. Her control mechanism clatters for a second, and then she lets out a ragged screech. Answering screeches break out from the underfloors, back out of the vent where you came from.
The cold vent echoes emptily. You can either flee west, to where you dropped down from the dining room, or east and hope there is an exit further in.
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