*With out thinking twice, Zack drops Lucinda in the snow, spins around down into a kneeling stance, qukcly draws a simple design in the snow, and whispers a chat into it. With a blast of white light, the rune design outstreches around the outnumbered group of four, Zack, Cifero, Fox, and Lucinda, and then forms an inpenetrable barrier about ten feet in diameter. White light glows about as Zack gets up, draws his sword, and howls loudly and bravely, but sounding like a cornered wolf none the less. fury in his eyes, he faces the female speaker.*