"They believe us to be their prey. We must show them we ... are . . . not." Silandra spun as she completed her sentence, throwing up her shield arm as one of the beasts launched itself at her, springing up out of the water and leaving a stream of droplets in its wake. It would have collided with her head-on, but her neat spin and sidestep meant that it sailed past, unable to halt its own momen-tum, and was pushed off course by Silandra's shield, which hummed as it struck the creature's flank.

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