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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 3170089" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #365a] Clipped Wings[/PLAIN]"Okay, lads and lassies, this be the test o' strength. This be what we 'ere for," Karak bellowed as the faen's shriek of pain reverberated against the walls of the cavern. "One o' the keys be within reach. Just concentrate and focus our efforts to prevail. Now let's do it!" Shamalin was unsure how she could 'DO' anything at the moment. She was quite a ways away and what had started out as an exciting feeling - levitating serenely up to the bridge - was now a frustratingly slow experience. She gritted her teeth and futilely willed herself to rise faster.High above her, Lela was doing exactly the same thing. She beat her wings furiously against the air, slipping free of the creature's jaws only to have them snap shut again on her leg, the fangs stripping flesh agonizingly away from the bone. She tumbled in the air, but managed somehow to keep herself aloft. Then the creature's claws were everywhere, coming at her from what seemed like all sides. She avoided the first, then the second, and then the third caught her painfully across the side of her head, sending her mind into unconsciousness and her body somersaulting limply over the side of the bridge."Lela!" Ayremac shouted up upon hearing the sprite's second scream of pain. "Lela, whats happ-?" he began only to stop as he saw the faen's broken body tumbling downward, end over end. Just he and Morier above him were in any position to catch her he saw and if she fell from that height, there was no hope of her surviving.He watched as the eldritch warrior stretched out his arms to catch the sprite. But he was too late and she plummeted passed him through the air. Ayremac tried to make frantic, clumsy swimming motions with his arms and legs until he realized there was no helping his situation; he just had to float up and wait for her to come to him.He didn't have to wait long, She came on fast - too fast as it turned out. His arms closed around empty air. For a moment his fingers caught tantalizingly on one of the faen's tiny booted feet. But it was slick with blood and he couldn't maintain a grip. Then she was gone, spiraling downward to land splinteringly in the crater far below.</blockquote>

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