Near The Woods: Rider, Haylie, and OPEN
Haylie was caught outside on the path between Kitsune dorm and the castle when the dragon roared. She shot a look into the sky just in time to see him rise up out of the forest. "Holy... mother of god," Haylie breathed out, seeing Ashton in dragon form for the first time.
Then it started to spit fire.
"Eeee!" She ducked instinctively, covering her head. Fortunately, the dragon was spewing fire in another direction. Also fortunately, no one was around to see or hear her shriek and duck like a pansy. And if they were, they were all scattering in different directions.
Haylie joined them running, heading to the castle. "Hey!" she shouted at the student ahead of her. "What's standard protocol on this?"
The student looked back. "Just run!"
"Yeah, but what..."
Haylie stopped dead in her tracks when she saw some kind of... some kind of something streaking across the lawn, straight at her. Haylie's eyes widened and she started to curse again, lift a hand to push with her mind, but before she could, an arrow split through the neck of the creature and it dropped at her feet, twitching.
"Holy SHIT!" Haylie looked up and around. "Did anyone else SEE that?"