Foolhardy though she could be, the instant Mina saw the...whatever it was...she skidded to a stop. "Bloody hell," she murmured.

Even after all of her experience, dealing with Kindred and the True Fae and whatever else crawled through the night, making a nuisance of itself, she felt ill-prepared for this. The goddamn thing was enormous. And she could see bodies. Bodies she rather wished were still alive. The lab coats were...

...well, no matter.

She took a step back, pressing the blade of the scalpel against her wrist, hard enough to feel a prick, but not hard enough to draw blood. Not yet. She wasn't entirely sure which spell she would even use for this situation.

So she waited to see what the creature would do.