Monsters were scattering across the valley floor, dark shapes bounding past the cars parked in the grass. Minnie was standing with the doors to the camper open, gesturing anxiously as Teige--carrying Abi--and Parker ran towards her.

"C'mon, c'mon--"

"They're on the hill, we're trapped down here," Teige told her breathlessly as they approached.

"The bar left," Abi said in disbelief, staring over Teige's shoulder. "It just went--"

Hawk landed heavily on the roof of the camper, swung down, and lunged inside; he snatched up his messenger back from the couch and went for the radio, sat on the counter with the other scattered things. Outside they were bickering fearfully--trying to tell Minnie that they needed to leave the RV, and Minnie demanding to know where, then, to go--

"Uphill, through the woods," Hawk interrupted as he clambered back out of the camper, wings barely fitting through the doorway. Minnie and Teige looked round at him. "There's a gas station and a road." He looped the strap of the bag over Parker's head, handing it to her. "We'll lose 'em in the trees--"

He was interrupted by a particularly loud BOOM--the raiding party had hit something big with a blast of red light that darkened the rest of the night, something that writhed and fell surrounded by string of spells. In the light that the spell threw off, they could see a small pack of dogs that was now making right for them.

Teige had already dematerialized slightly, going bright green and fiery--Abi climbed his shoulder, apparently totally unhurt by the flames he gave off. If the raiders had not seen them before, they definitely did now, as the dark shapes of humans were now coming after the dogs.

"Go!" Hawk shouted, pushing Parker--who seemed to have frozen--towards Teige. "Run! Now!"

In an instant Teige had become a horse, and Parker had climbed awkwardly up onto his back behind Abi, and was now pulling Minnie up after her--Hawk had to power backwards up into the air heavily as the dogs closed in and one of them leapt for him--the others went after Teige's hooves, unafraid of the green fire still flickering around them, and he heaved to the side to avoid them.