- One on One
- Group
- Dice
Maggie flinches back from the raging, explosively flaming demon. Her face is nearly bone-white, her eyes wider than ever, and she is trembling with fear and with the effort expended in not screaming. For a moment, it's the only effort she's capable of, with that ferocious sight in front of her. Only the demon's charge causes a change, and even then it's all she can do to push herself between it and Meric (she's forgotten whether his injuries are healed at this point), hardly realizing she's doing it. It's a further (albeit much lesser) shock when neither of them is attacked, the demon instead leaping over their heads. The priestess remembers to breathe, and is just turning to see what's happening behind her when Meric's tug on her sleeve calls her attention downwards. Her shaking hands automatically grasp the sword's hilt, but at first she seems not to understand what he's telling her. Suddenly his words sink in. She replies, her words no louder than his. "Raziel?" She looks at the sword, at the demon, at the sword again, and finally back at Meric himself. Her mouth tightens, as do her hands upon the sword's hilt, and she nods, accepting Meric's trust in her. Rising to her feet, she studies the situation. She could bring the ancient blade to Battojutsu, but from here she cannot tell how badly he is injured, only that he isn't getting up. And doing so would certainly entail running past the demon and probably attracting its attention before she can hand off the sword and get the demonhunter on his feet again. No one else is close enough. The demon's back is before her, within reach for this brief opportunity. She raises the sword in both hands, a look of fierce determination on her face. Though she doesn't know the sword, she does know the staff, and she knows how to thrust. Silently, so as not to give any warning to her foe, she runs forward, the sword's point aimed at Nemar's heart with all her strength and momentum behind it - and all her faith, wordless prayers filling her soul with hope and resolve.