Larksong Grotto monster

It was almost as if Laurel didn't feel anything at all, as if she was driven by something numb and cold; as if she was already gone. She didn't want to lose again, and Indy was her everything. Laurel fell into daddy's embrace and pressed into it, but she could not find tears anywhere. There was something she needed to do, something to make everything right again.

But her father was not easily swayed, and she clenched her jaw when he denied her the opportunity to watch the boys alone. "But I'm cold," she said and she pulled back from the embrace. "I don't want to —" But she was interrupted by the cheerful shouts of one of the boys. It was Tapat. She looked back to see if Astik was there too but she didn't see him anywhere.

She was easily tossed aside in favour of the child, and Laurel felt anger burn inside of her. She felt like nothing more than a broken husk, something that wouldn't so easily be fixed again. And if she was already broken, what was the point? The only thing she could and should do, was to remove what stood between her and Indy's return. She looked at Reek with a startlingly empty expression when he asked her to go, feeling numb, feeling nothing, which made it all the easier to do what she must.

The time for charades was over now, and after standing still for a moment in the freezing cold just staring at her father, she said: "Okay." But she didn't come; instead, she suddenly came into motion and dove for Tapat when he was nearest to her side. She didn't even think about the fact that Reek could easily kill her once she'd reached the child, that she would never get away even if she would succeed in her mission. But in her youthful mind and her broken heart, she saw only what she had to do and only saw her task at hand, not even thinking about what she would do if she would — or would not — succeed.

So she dove for the child, low to the ground in hopes of avoiding her father's wrath for long enough, aiming for the child's neck so that she could burrow her teeth in it and wrench the life out of him should she succeed.