>>5205609Arcane energy surged through Susan, illiciting a howl of pain as the runes began to 'crawl' up Susan's encased arm, etching themselves onto her skin in scarlet blood inch by inch...
-and suddenly the pain was cut off along with the limb, this time the pain was self-inflicted as part of Susan's desperate tactic to escape the entombment while Sathriel exited the monolith as if she was never harmed in the first place.
"Suzie! Help!" A call came from one of the few bandits yet to be crucified, having narrowly managed to avoid that fate with fast thinking by toppling some of the monoliths on the field to pin Sathriel's enforcers under them. One of the monoliths threatened to topple onto Lisa's incapacitated form. With a gesture of her hand, and a command unspoken, the monolith ever so slightly shifted its falling angle as Sathriel turned to save Lisa from doom. The move was enough to distract Sathriel for a moment, but a moment was all Susan needed to send the Arbiter flying with her other fist into the path of the falling hazard, seemingly crushing the Arbiter under the broken non-functional monolith.
The battlefield soon echoed into silence as the fight seemingly concluded with the Arbiter's apparent demise. Susan waited, and waited, and waited, their eyes shifting between the pillars that crushed the Arbiter and her enforcers and Lisa's unconscious body seemingly unharmed by the chaos of the battle.
Finally, she relaxes with a sigh of relief before regrouping with what remained of her uncrucified crew.
"Nikki, Mary, how are you holding up?"
"We're fine."
"What do we do now?" Nikki asked, her eyes gazing at the crucified members of their warband in horror.
"Might I suggest something?" said Sathriel stepping out of the vantablack monolith from behind the three to their surprise and shock. "Give up."
As one, Susan and her sisterhood pounced towards Sathriel, intent on taking advantage of the Arbiter's apparent arrogance in leaving herself open within arm's reach.
(cont.)
