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- I prepared to make a move, and I felt the danger sense of no less than twelve different capes in my army go off.
- Yet I still alerted the ghost in armor. He moved, lurching to his feet, and he spoke.
- Glaistig Uaine said something, and it was a single word, a hard word.
- He was a precog, and to look at him, he was a defensive cape.
- She'd been anticipating an attack.
- The thin woman moved, and a current of wind ripped through the air, two feet wide and ten feet tall, less a tornado and more a battering ram. It flew through the sky, homing in on me.
- I moved through a portal, and the column followed. It hit me like a truck, and I nearly lost my grip on the clairvoyant’s hand.
- I tumbled. In a sense, my lack of control over my own body helped more than anything. I was left panting, but I hadn’t tensed up because the reflex simply hadn’t been there. Being limp when I took the hit was better than going tense and tearing something.
- The Faerie Queen had anticipated an attack. She had to know what I’d been doing, how I was operating. If I used my power…
- What did the vulgar woman with the lipstick smirk and creepy white teeth do?
- Another column of wind homed in on me.
- My army threw barriers in the way. Force fields, walls of crystal and walls of fire.
- The column passed between them like it wasn’t even a consideration. I closed the portal in front of me before the column could zip through.
- I watched as it changed course, heading for the nearest member of my army. I might have been able to do something about it, but I suspected it would have found a way to me anyways. Instead, I shifted my grip, gripping the young man’s wrist, and making him grab mine. A surer grip than hand-on-hand.
- The wind-attack compressed, passing through the foot-wide portal behind them, and it hit me. Not as hard as the first, because it wasn’t as large, but it still hurt.
- [...]
- The faerie queen banished her wind-witch and brought out another spirit. I tried to capitalize on the distraction, getting one cape with one of the stronger ranged powers to attack her. A gravity pulse, a bullet that imploded things at the impact site.
- The man in armor moved, and the vulgar woman reacted, creating a circle of rippling air. The bullet struck the barrier, and the man who'd sent out the pulse promptly imploded, blood showering everyone nearby.
- Something indirect, then. I opened a portal a distance away, and I used Canary's song.
- She kept the field up. I could feel the pain wrack Canary, hear her choke on her words. She doubled over and coughed up blood.
- A power counterer, a precog… and Eidolon, now.
- - Speck 30.4
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