The Iron-eating Beast was stout, yet shockingly fast. Carrying its cub, it dashed away and vanished from the edge of the bamboo forest in an instant.
Flora Bloom watched it go. 'The bamboo forest…'
Even though the eight people on the ground had tried to steal its cub, the Iron-eating Beast had only knocked them out, sparing their lives.
Seeing that the people on the ground were about to wake up, Flora Bloom quickly concealed herself within Lex Cross's Devouring Force.
She pulled a few old garments from her personal dimension, handing them to Lex Cross and Saul Sterling. Then, she popped into her dimension to change into a tattered outfit herself.
Flora Bloom glanced at the two men, then at Polly.
'This won't do. We're still too clean!'
Irene Seymour was the first to wake. The first thing she saw were three figures—two men and a woman—caked in so much mud they looked like statues. The woman was holding an equally filthy child.
