Scarcely knowing what she was doing, the Seer grasped Zephyrine's blade hard enough for it to cut into her tough skin. As her blood stained the blade, she felt something sweep through her in a dizzying rush of power far beyond her ken. The ice in her veins seemed to deepen, the chill in the air grow sharper.
Recalling the things that this woman had already accomplished,
Aeyliea grinned fatalistically.
"If swing big tail at us, raise wall of stone," she suggested. Anything that might blunt the weight behind such blows would be welcome. Hurling stones would be ineffective; she could practically feel the layered wards that the dragon had woven round itself like a shell of adamantine.
"I will take lead. May the Seven protect us," she said. There should have been dread in her voice but strangely she felt nothing but a fatalistic determination.
The dragon huffed a laugh at her invocation of the Great Ones.
No'rei did not fear death, but they were not eager to be sent back in to the gleaming Sea overhead. She herself had stared death in the eyes enough times before.
Just never a dragon.
"If I die, burn this vessel," she said briskly. Shortened spear in hand, she cursed at the lack of a buckler until she realized that trying to stop anything this creature did with a bit of wood and leather was as pointless as trying to stop the sun from rising.
She darted forward, braid flying like the tail of an angry cat as she went. The terrain was smooth enough - a boon and a curse all in one. The dragon chuffed a draconic laugh and drew breath again.
Didn't work once, won't work now either.
Scorching sorcery lashed from its gaping maw and washed over her in a tide of cold, burning magic. She felt the rush of answering sorcery within her and the chill in her blood and bone that announced the channeling of the unknown power and the presence of the
undead Wyrm.
The bitter cold nearly made her forget where and what she was doing. She had to stop short and nearly tumbled into snapping teeth and blood red, furious eyes.
"...!" she managed to exclaim, sidestepping and avoiding being eviscerated.
Narrowly.