Marquis

He cast a glance her way and stuck one foot out in her direction.  His toes mutated into a jagged, uneven ripple of bone that stretched out beneath her.  Unable to maintain her footing, she had to cancel out the lance, using her hands to brace her fall.

Spikes of bone poked out of the ground in a circle around her, rising to form a cage.

Interlude 15

> > A heartbeat later, a cage of bone erupted from the ground.  Bindings wound around my legs.

> > He laid a trap under the surface of the ground, I thought.

> Speck 30.2