Cures Echidna

Back in front of her again, I pressed my fingertips to the first rune, the primary one.

“Suidigidir.”

The runes glowed, crackling, searing themselves into the ground. Noelle clutched suddenly at her head, pitching forward and doubling over, eyes clenched shut.

“What are you doing to me?” she demanded.

“Blocking your passenger,” I told her.

A spell of binding, of a sorts. The results would isolate her from the influence of her passenger, but the method… There was some complicated babble that Aífe understood, but what it boiled down to was blocking Noelle off from extradimensional influence. It wasn’t quite that simple, but for an explanation, it was adequate.

It was normally used for things that were harder to hit, in this reality. Ghosts and spirits, or exorcising gods or demons from human hosts. Things that couldn’t be handled through overwhelming physical force.

Against her passenger, it should work exactly like that.

A few moments later, the lightshow ended and Noelle collapsed, unconscious. After a second of hesitation, Amy stepped forward, knelt down, and pressed a few fingers to Noelle’s bare leg.

“Subtle signs of transformation of her flesh,” she mumbled. “…Fixed. No signs of further mutation.” She let out a breath and looked at me. “It worked. I think.”

I let out a breath of my own. It was finally over.