>>6338514>>6338514>91You dig your heels into the dirt and grab the length of the Umbral Snare's shadowy rope, holding it tight as the lizard thrashes around and you have a clever idea. You keep your grip on the shadow rope and drop the handle of the snare to the ground and stomp down with Behrs boots to essentially lock it there. With a free hand, you grab more of the rope and reel the lizard towards you, prompting more desperate thrashing as it realizes you're meeting its own strength. The damn beast tries to grab more things to throw at you with its tail but a fierce yank stops it every time and you can feel its panic start to set in as the moment it slips after a particularly strong pull, Oranya is leaping at it with an orb of violent gale winds in her hand.
What comes next is nothing short of a focused, concentrated blast of concussive wind that craters the entire side of the lizard and it's only thanks to your training that keeps you from dropping down from the sheer force radiating outwards. You shield yourself quickly with both arms as the wind kicks up dirt and you lower them to see the lizard twitching on the ground, bleeding profusely from its mouth and side as scales have been shred off and its body looks more broken than whole.
"Blasted lizard," Oranya curses as she produces a towel to clean her own face off from the muck that was thrown around during the battle.
You'll admit, you'll need to clean yourself up later when you remove Xandin's cloak but for now you've been spared the grime and dirt from sticking to your skeletal form, but more importantly you turn to Heyra and notice she's squaring off against some manner of twin plant people...or perhaps another odd strain of mimic.
Whatever they are, they're clearly intensely wary of the Fellblaze and are backing away quickly as Heyra makes a swipe at them with the flaming weapon and the two things scatter.
With her side settled, she turns to look at how your progress is going and is relieved the two of you are alright. And gives you a hard look. You're thankful for when it eases up and she chants a quick verse that sees the flames absorbed into runes along the Fellblaze's form.
"I'm sorry about earlier." You blurt out as Heyra and Oranya begin their way further towards where you'd all seen the strange ocean spirit go off to.
"I...know you were trying to help Capran, and it's alright, but in the future, let me know you're going to help and maybe I could have been a bit more prepared."
Oranya is silent as she witnesses the exchange but says nothing after and you all make haste. Shortly until you all come upon a bizarre scene that defies explanation.
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