Nissa - Elemental punch 2

A tree slammed into him from the left.

Metal bars cracked across his chest, and something splintered.

He blinked away stars. Breath became a painful chore.

He was crumpled against the guardrail at the edge of the roof. On the far side, the elf now held the girl limp across her arms. Over them both towered her reconstituted elemental beast, flicking blood off a root-fist the size of a thopter. It shook itself, and the leaves on its back hissed like a furious tiger.

"Leave," the elf said coldly, and turned away.

The roar of the thopter descended behind him.

Boots clustered around his head.

Baan's voice came over the thrum of wings, precise and clinically distant. "Multiple broken ribs and a hairline fracture of the collarbone. Mild concussion. Damage to the trachea and larynx. Second degree burns on the back, face, and feet. Third degree burns across the left leg. A stretcher, if you please, inspectors." A chorus of guttural acknowledgements as Baral's squad snapped to.

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BURN