Which was what she was doing when some jumped out at her.
Only moments before she had noticed the tree that she was passing. It hadn't seemed to be anything except normal. So she had merely written it off and went on her way. After all, she had more important things to do than to look over trees and not a whole lot of time to do it in.
That was when the tree apparently decided to force her to make the time. It creaked as its branches literally reached for her, which made her pause in concern. Then a shadow appeared on the ground in front of her, and a glance over her shoulder told her what had made it.
Leaping out of the way, she had turned to face it, scowling at her attacker. She reached to call on her communicator for the others, but then branches wrapped around that arm. It tried to drag her to it, but she dug in her heels in an attempt to at least slow it. More branches came at her, and she knew she had to strike before it did.
"Cresent Beam!" she called out, sending the beam of energy through both the branches that were coming and the ones that were holding her. They were cut right through, and she knew that this was her chance to get free.
So she decided to run for it. Dodging the attacks meant to keep her there, she ran, fully intent on calling for back up. As she made her way along, she took a look at her communicator.., only to notice that it was wrecked beyond repair.
"That was the third one this month," she complained to herself, "Artemis is going to chew me out for this!" Groaning over the loss of the piece of equipment, and the need to replace it, she:
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