Well, Marissa can certainly get a feel of Twilight's thoughts on the matter now. She's not disguising the animosity one bit. Best lay it out quickly then. "I took my frustrations out on you earlier, and I used things I'd overheard to do it. I was trying to offend you, but I don't have the context behind the words to judge whether I went too far. I was out of line in several ways."
Lion shuffled slightly awkwardly before she just settled for nodding her head as she said, "It's just what happened, nothing to be done for it now."
Lion has let the awkward conversation pass as she tended to the food before Crimson had ambled over to squat next to her. The question her fellow MG asked wasn't unwelcome, but it felt a little weird to Lion if she were asked. Still, she couldn't think of a reason to refuse to answer, not that she wanted to, so Lion gave a slight shrug before she spoke. "Honestly? I'm doing better than I could be given the circumstances. Things have been a hell of a lot more stressful than I'd prefer but the outcome has been more than I would've hoped for," she said in a pensive voice.
Shan nodded understandingly. Considering the... 'conversation' she had overheard in parts during the previous night, as well as the events that unfolded afterward, she could understand why Lion would be stressed.
"It would be something nice, but I don't think it's in the cards for now, Crimson," Lion offered with a shrug. She wasn't exactly sure how she was supposed to handle this conversation given that it seemed there had been a few misunderstandings about what had happened prior to her and Twilight's arrival here, but Lion wasn't sure if she could or even should clear them up for the time being. Especially not when it seemed that the conversation was-
-doing that and aggravating Ali.
Lion winced at the sound of Twilight's scythe burying itself in the stump. When High Noon approaches her, she gave a slight sigh and nodded her head as she said, "I probably should, so thank you."
As she got up from her seat to let High Noon take over though, Lion abruptly paused at Cheshire's question and promptly grimaced. "Yeah, those raptor things she spotted are heading this way," Lion declares as the radar indicators abruptly started coming in the direction of the camp.
Shan nodded; she really would have liked to spend a few weeks exploring this area... with a safe staging ground to work from, that was.
At this point, Shan's expression had warped into a grimace. She sighed and got up, drawing Will and Courage to prepare casting her Bloodletter at the first enemy she could see. A moment of consideration made her aware of the fact she did not know in which direction to look, so she called out to the ship-themed girl: "Where from, Lion?!"
At Lion's proclamation, Cheshire let out a frustrated sigh. Of course those stupid raptors would come while the group was trying to cook breakfast. What a pain...Cheshire began looking around, and tried to layer her magic over her claws in preparation for the fight.
There can never be just one problem at a time, can there? "Wasn't the whole point of their excursion earlier that we wouldn't have to fight off everything in this miserable forest?" she exclaims with frustration and a touch of fear leaking into her voice. She needs to be safe. Her Spires aren't standing up to abuse, but she can't do anything about that. She'll have to rely on layers, then. The way the camp is set up now, the fence is basically the curtain wall of a castle. They're about to suffer a siege, so she'll retreat to the keep.
"Not everything at once!" Shan called back calmly, still waiting for directions from Lion. Though she assumed that the way her ally's guns turned was where the raptors would attack from and faced in the same direction for now.
"Northwest, they just passed the hundred meter mark though they're not moving too quickly," Lion answered as she adjusted her stance and brought her weapons to bear in the raptor's direction.
Shan quickly adjusted her own posture a little bit and got to think. At least she had a warning about the noise that was to erupt soon, so she could brace herself. Lion's suggestion was probably the best way to go about it, though a little stubborn voice in Shan's head insisted she go and do it herself instead. That was wrong, though. She ignored that part of herself and considered their options.
"Can you make a platform instead? I think I can help better if I can see everything without being blocked." High Noon asked Spire Cracker as the latter made her barricade.
"Would that be effective? Just from there being multiple of them mean they're not as big as the snake before, right? Won't your salvo mostly hit the trees instead?" High Noon questioned. "Though that should at least hit some of them at worst."
"Pretty much," Shan offered amiably and crossed her blades in preparation. "You cast first, we go right after." Which was... basically the whole plan. She really ought to put more thought into these matters, but it was the best she could come up with on short notice. Then again, everyone knew their own strengths best at this point.
"I can't make that sort of thing on short notice." Ducking inside, she calls out, "You could hop onto the roof, if you need some height!"
"That should work I would think," Lion commented idly. Her attention was more focused on Alice though as her friend leaned in and whispered to her.
"Provided nothing else comes calling right after these things and that we don't take too long, that should be fine, Ali," she replied just as softly. The thought of just what it was that Ali wanted to show her made Lion want to shiver slightly in a mixture of anticipation and trepidation but she ruthlessly clamped down on the reaction. They had enemies in bound and she needed to make sure that she kept herself steady as she prepared to fight.