When K'aijeen hit the rock, she hit hard and took a moment to start climbing. Panic drove her on before she even had her balance, clawing with battered limbs. The Sun Drakes fared worse than this when they tried to follow their prey. The belly-dragging predators pressed their necks and chests to the rock to push themselves, but their elbows pointed out and up away from their bodies and their fingers were meant for cutting skin, not carrying great weight. They did not climb. They bellowed and snapped their teeth.
Green light flaring around the stick in her hands, K'aijeen again summoned wind and through the dirt into a cloud around them. It was perhaps the simplest spell possible, easily cast without thought. The dirt spun around them well before any more bolts could see them, but they also couldn't see the Amal'jaa or the red-haired figure stumbling away from them.
Almost completely obscured was the narrow, crooked figure that stood strangely straight on the slope immediately to one side of Thal. The figure's narrow, dusky armed lifted and pressed its hand to its face, its tired voice grating at a near-whisper. "Such incredible trouble you manage to find in the middle of nowhere."
Green light flaring around the stick in her hands, K'aijeen again summoned wind and through the dirt into a cloud around them. It was perhaps the simplest spell possible, easily cast without thought. The dirt spun around them well before any more bolts could see them, but they also couldn't see the Amal'jaa or the red-haired figure stumbling away from them.
Almost completely obscured was the narrow, crooked figure that stood strangely straight on the slope immediately to one side of Thal. The figure's narrow, dusky armed lifted and pressed its hand to its face, its tired voice grating at a near-whisper. "Such incredible trouble you manage to find in the middle of nowhere."
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