As Keiko shifts and changes Tràkata moves both his paws to either side of his mouth, plants them against Tanyuu's scales, and his thick ruffed neck and powerful shoulders bunch and strain as he braces with his paws and pulls with his jaws, trying to take what little time he has before Keiko's in a state to stop him to just tear a great horrible chunk out of Tanyuu's tail.
Meanwhile Scout has one of her flashes of insight that gave her her name and gathers herself, leaping surprisingly high in the air and coming down on a mossy boulder, which her hoof-claws slip on for a moment before recovering. She swipes more of the sanekui back into ink, face set and angry; she knows if she could just get in close she could end this, and that Tanyuu's not just going to let her.
Well, if it's a distance-based slugging match, she's not helpless now, either. Scout shifts her weight, centered and solid with one foot leading, her tail curling a half-circle on the stone underfoot, staring at Tanyuu with her blade down. This traitor, this Harbinger who wants to use her powers to kill her own friends, to kill Scout's friends, it's different from before and still the same, but this time, now, Scout can do something about it.
The power of Creation wells deep in Scout, much more of a manic energy than the few times the Force has blessed her but still a great sense of life, and shines in her, glows out from her skin, from the magic substance that composes her dæmon, haloing outwards and pushing the frustrated swarm back, tossing the hems of her clothing and her extended hair as if they're blown by a wind. She swings her lightsaber up to point at Tanyuu.
"I'm going to stop you!" she calls, which is good enough for an attack name, apparently, because the light around her collects around her lightsaber and fires out in a burst that rocks Scout back despite her bracing.
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Meanwhile Scout has one of her flashes of insight that gave her her name and gathers herself, leaping surprisingly high in the air and coming down on a mossy boulder, which her hoof-claws slip on for a moment before recovering. She swipes more of the sanekui back into ink, face set and angry; she knows if she could just get in close she could end this, and that Tanyuu's not just going to let her.
Well, if it's a distance-based slugging match, she's not helpless now, either. Scout shifts her weight, centered and solid with one foot leading, her tail curling a half-circle on the stone underfoot, staring at Tanyuu with her blade down. This traitor, this Harbinger who wants to use her powers to kill her own friends, to kill Scout's friends, it's different from before and still the same, but this time, now, Scout can do something about it.
The power of Creation wells deep in Scout, much more of a manic energy than the few times the Force has blessed her but still a great sense of life, and shines in her, glows out from her skin, from the magic substance that composes her dæmon, haloing outwards and pushing the frustrated swarm back, tossing the hems of her clothing and her extended hair as if they're blown by a wind. She swings her lightsaber up to point at Tanyuu.
"I'm going to stop you!" she calls, which is good enough for an attack name, apparently, because the light around her collects around her lightsaber and fires out in a burst that rocks Scout back despite her bracing.