Sayaka and Homura clashed between the cracks. They weaved in and out with lunges and parries and expert coordination of their footsteps. About a million swords gravitated around Sayaka, her body drenched in blood that ran from gashes across her skull and shoulders and limbs and back, gashes that healed the instant she received them. Homura, untouched, wove between Sayaka's attacks and returned fire at an extreme pace, bullets from weapons not even automatic, and nearly every shot hit Sayaka because Sayaka with a red glint in her eye made no effort to dodge unless the shot aimed at her Soul Gem. It took all of two milliseconds for Sloan to appraise Sayaka as not winning this fight, she looked less like a living thing and more like a golem animated to continue despite structural failure.

(Chapter 40)