BREATHLESS, KALLEN CAN ONLY WATCH IN AWE AS APONIA'S BUTTERFLIES COME TO HER RESCUE. inspired, she quickly adjusts, falling back slightly to give aponia more room. with her pistols in hand, she aims for the shade and fires — but her bullets seem to bounce right off of its reinforced armor. suddenly, soundlessly, the fragmentum monster lunges forward with its formidable axe, its sweeping swing careening toward kallen's companion — “lady aponia! watch out!”
[combat]: enemy roll [9] — ally rolls [7, 7]. allies take -2 HP [25/30].
[combat]: enemy roll [2] — ally rolls [6, 1]. enemy takes -4 HP [0/10].
a well-aimed shot shatters through the eternal ice engulfing — or comprising? — the fragmentum shade's face. at that same instant, its axe seemingly grazes aponia all the same — or is it kallen herself that it grazes? the shade disintegrates into a shimmer of smoking stardust, cold air, disorientation — and kallen grunts, wincing from the dull ache in her ankle, at her side. then, sucking in a breath to ground herself, she turns to her companion, quick to ignore her own injuries to confirm that aponia is all right.
as the two of them catch their breaths, kallen glances toward where she had seen more of the monsters. there they still are, preoccupied with — something, a part of a building, maybe? again and again, the bird-like things swoop in and peck at whatever it is. then, the sound of glass shattering. that can't be good.
“they're destroying the buildings ... let's go while they're distracted.” kallen tries to remind herself of aponia's earlier words — be careful. as they approach, the scene grows clearer. beyond the fragmentum frostspawn, another shade is hunched over something, its axe lodged against a broken window. the frostspawn closest to the two women seem almost to be vying for something — then one, seemingly defeated, swoops away, only to be drawn toward the sound of living things, the sound of kallen and aponia approaching.
kallen aims. one, two. the gunshots barely echo in the white terrrain.
[combat]: enemy roll [1] — ally rolls [5, 1]. enemy takes -4 HP [25/30].
[combat]: enemy roll [3] — ally rolls [9, 5]. enemy takes -6 HP [0/10].
the frostspawn dissipates, but its former companion seems to have noticed its absence. or, kallen is simply reading too much emotion into these beings of pure destruction. still, it doesn't come any closer, just yet. kallen points in the directionof the shade, instead. “... i think they're guarding something, over there.”
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