"Probably coming closer. What would it be running away from?" Roy, for his purposes, didn't underrate their ability in the slightest. He had no reason to doubt Chandra's statements of hurling fire at things with divine rank, and though he didn't know where Fatima stood in relative terms he had no reason to doubt her ability either. And he'd fought dinosaurs and whatnot and survived.

But this creature didn't know any of that, so as far as it was concerned, they were just three small fleshy things that were either good eating or not worth attention, if it knew they were there. Which, hopefully, it didn't.

Another vibration, and then another -- each one minutely stronger than the last. Roy ducked behind a tree, and motioned the others to do the same.