>>5274443>>5274444>>5274447>>5274452>>5274469>>5274501>>5274509>>5274536>>5274580You take a deep breath, and force it not to surge forth as fire. While dragonfire is inherent to you in a way your other is not, in such a way that it does not even deplete your body’s reserves of mystical energy, it would still scorch the entire mesh of silk and worm-spit… And all the treasure-bearing bodies therein.
Instead, you steady yourself, quiet your heart, and open your mind. You draw back to bowstring, and close your nictitating membranes; you aim not with your two physical eyes, but your mystic third—the even by which you divined your future, and saw this very moment. The glow of the great-worm is different here, in this realm of understanding. You reach out with your mana and tether yourself to its possibilities—where it is, where it may be, how the wind currents move around it and affect the hypothetical course of incoming projectiles. In this form of vision, this state of might, the glow of your objective is even brighter, more intense and distinct from that of its nest and smaller compatriots.
You release your breath, and let the arrow fly.
