He had barely had time to take a step away from the blood-tainted forest when a sound behind him made the charm around his neck scream in protest. Cathun swirled around and watched in horror how a rift opened in mid air, blasting the air aside and thrusting everyone back. He gritted his teeth against the force of it and dug his hooves down deep, squinting through leaking eyes at a towering, enormous BEAST pushed its way through into his world.
He saw the god-creatures exchange words, saw the corruption spread from the foreign being and quivered at the prospect of having to fight it. This was Gaucho ten times over, there was no way he would be able to do anything against it. Why anyone remained where they were was beyond him, he didn't understand why they didn't just turn and run for their lives, like he wanted to do, like he was doing.
Slowly, loathing himself for being just as cowardly as he probably seemed, Cathun began to inch back against the trees. The protective charm that safeguarded his life was beginning to fail, he could feel the magic awaken within him and press outwards, igniting his hair bit by bit - only to be suppressed again by a feeble lurch of the magatama. It wouldn't be long now until the second one failed, and if he lingered here then the third would no doubt break as well, and then he would have no time left.
So he turned, sparing a last long glance at the commencing battle before he ran. Away from the fray, away from honor and glory and other pointless things, off to warn a herd he didn't particularly care for, leaving behind a girl he might actually like and friends he didn't even know yet.
Some noble soul he was.
Cathun OUT - he won't participate in the fight.