You know what? Nevermind. The impact on the ground is a little more jarring than it should be thanks to those explosions knocking her balance off a little, but Saretha's hunch is right and her magically-enhanced strength is enough to withstand it. She shakes her head a little, clearing it before turning to Saretha at her question.
"I don't know! I think... I remember something about these things, but not much." She frowns a little, thinking back, dredging up the memories that had come along with the Echo of first seeing one of these on the network. "They're monsters, they... seal away a person's dream and feed on despair. I... fought them."
Her frown deepens as she recalls that information. Locking away dreams, feeding on a person's despair. Somehow saying it aloud like that makes something twist in her heart, it's sickening and angering. Trampling all over somebody's dreams like that, somewhere deep down on some instinctual level she just knows it's wrong and needs to be set right.
Then the thundering crash of the Zetsuborg behind her and she whips around to face it, just in time for that fork weapon to come stabbing down at her.
"Can you give it a rest-" with nothing else at the ready and no time to leap away she reaches out with one hand, calling on her power and with a flash an ornate, crystal rod appears in her hand. "-for one minute?!"
She clasps the rod with both hands and swings with all her might at the fork, hoping to parry it aside. It's ridiculous, and probably kind of silly looking, but it's all she has at the moment.
... She didn't at all expect the wave of light that suddenly bursts forth from it to blast over the Zetsuborg.
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You know what? Nevermind. The impact on the ground is a little more jarring than it should be thanks to those explosions knocking her balance off a little, but Saretha's hunch is right and her magically-enhanced strength is enough to withstand it. She shakes her head a little, clearing it before turning to Saretha at her question.
"I don't know! I think... I remember something about these things, but not much." She frowns a little, thinking back, dredging up the memories that had come along with the Echo of first seeing one of these on the network. "They're monsters, they... seal away a person's dream and feed on despair. I... fought them."
Her frown deepens as she recalls that information. Locking away dreams, feeding on a person's despair. Somehow saying it aloud like that makes something twist in her heart, it's sickening and angering. Trampling all over somebody's dreams like that, somewhere deep down on some instinctual level she just knows it's wrong and needs to be set right.
Then the thundering crash of the Zetsuborg behind her and she whips around to face it, just in time for that fork weapon to come stabbing down at her.
"Can you give it a rest-" with nothing else at the ready and no time to leap away she reaches out with one hand, calling on her power and with a flash an ornate, crystal rod appears in her hand. "-for one minute?!"
She clasps the rod with both hands and swings with all her might at the fork, hoping to parry it aside. It's ridiculous, and probably kind of silly looking, but it's all she has at the moment.
... She didn't at all expect the wave of light that suddenly bursts forth from it to blast over the Zetsuborg.