[ CT shifts just enough to give him the space he needs to get the longbow free. Her hearing's still keen, though this goes right on the list of times she wishes she had a helmet full of sensors and a live radar on her head again. ]

Not Nightrenders. [ too subtle and no increase in that creeping dread, the tickle of paranoia and fear in the back of her mind is constant but not spiking ] So if it's anything, it has to be those— other things. Or—

[ Or she really is just being paranoid, she spent a whole month in Svelte feeling like something was about to happen, something was following her, only for the weirdest thing to happen to be an easily explainable glitch. But this doesn't feel like that did. So she shakes the dismissive thought away. ]

Could be an ambush. Could be being followed.