[ four assailants.. that's too much for her to handle alone, especially if she has to worry about protecting futaba and all the vulphytes as well. she ducks down to futaba's level, hoping that the shock troopers won't notice them for the time being. she needs a second to think. ]

New plan — we're going to sneak our way out of this. You can handle the vulphytes, right? [ she steadies her hand over the gun in her holster, in case she needs to pull it out on the fly. ] Follow me, and be extra quiet.

[ luckily, she's used to skulking around forests. stealth missions aren't something foreign to her. yuna scouts a rough path ahead, one that ground troops probably wouldn't venture through, then trudges to a nearby tree, beckoning futaba to follow suit. ]

Be careful, it's dense here. There might be— Ow! [ thorns. yeah, there's some thorns. she bites her tongue and picks it out of her elbow. ]