Love Lost vs Valefor

Love Lost closed in, moving with one arm and both legs, her eyes closed, her other hand pulling her mask away from her face.  Rain spoke, giving her instructions.  Telling her where to go and where to aim, urging her to be quick, when every step threatened to move a piece of concrete or tile and roll the ankle.  She had her power, but she wasn’t weightless.

Juliette stood off to the side, Chastity watching her back.

Valefor was frozen [due to Juliet], unable to do anything to get clear of danger, while Love Lost positioned herself.

But Rain was partially blind too.  He avoided eye contact with Valefor.

I flew to get closer.

“Five feet to the right, turn to ten o’clock!” I screamed the words down at them.

How far does a scream reach?

She listened.  She crossed the distance, stumbling over rubble, turned, and then screamed.

She caught Valefor in the same moment Juliette was forced to break her hold on him due to incoming fire.  He began a reckless run in Love Lost’s direction, heedless of the dangerous footing.  Mama Mathers turned to run the other way.  Her troops, no doubt coordinated by phantom images of her, turned to do the same.

Abandoning her son.  Someone I had to assume she cherished.

“Claw out!” I called out.  I flew down, avoiding the black sand that was cast out to distract, and flew in so I would be right behind Valefor.

Valefor grabbed a piece of rebar as he ran, moving to attack Love Lost, while she couldn’t be sure she could open her eyes.

He swung, hitting her extended claw, rather than run headlong into it.  What followed was a short, violent melee, as Love Lost fought blind at first, swiping and lacerating chest, stomach, then arm.  She got swatted across the scalp, and this prompted her to open her eyes, maybe thinking she needed to do it to save herself.  She froze mid-swipe.

Valefor twisted around, pointing at me.  Love Lost leaped, using Valefor’s shoulder as a springboard.  I chucked the concrete at Valefor, and met Love Lost in the air.