The fact of the matter was that the three of them were used to dealing with situations like this. The only difference was that they weren't usually in the habit of running. If things had been normal, some fancy swordplay and a few Artes would have taken out those birds in no time. But they didn't have that luxury right now, which was why they had to resort to a retreat like this one.

It was all a bit scattered, and despite Guy's efforts Luke didn't keep up with him as well as he would have liked. He reached the trees and turned around to watch Luke narrowly miss one of the monster's attacks, but in the end he made it safely.

A quick glance around showed that Anise was a bit further down, which meant that all of them had made it to some cover, at least. "Let's regroup," he told Luke as he started to move toward Anise. That hadn't even been enough to make him short of breath, but he got the feeling they were going to be doing a lot more running before the night was done.

Once they'd regrouped, Guy sent a glance up the hill. "It's going to be a bit of a hike." Once again, that was something they were all used to, but the circumstances were all different. "I'm not sure how far those things are going to try and track us, either." Luke was clearly as much of a target as him or Anise, so the three of them probably looked like a pretty good meal to those creatures. Dammit.