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Pew pew pew! Trixie continued to fire rounds at the Dream Eater, but all they did was sink further and further into its oopy-goopy skin. [i]"I make the rules and nothing you do will be able to hurt me,"[/i] it taunted, removing the arrow pinned to its eye like nothing.

"That's cheating! Cheating!!" Trixie called back. She looked back at Syed, who was shifting his hands around. Some gears soon began to shift around them - horizontally rather than vertically. "Ooh!" The prankster watched with sparkling eyes. She was ready to risk jumping across the cogs and gears the way Estelle and Atlas had been, but Syed bringing some of them closer together just made things a lot easier for all of them.

She prepared to charge closer to it, aiming to snag its attention with both annoying bullets and proximity - when suddenly a large black cat landed beside her! Trixie gasped, holding her guns still on the Dream Eater but looking instead at the feline beside her. It had been quite sometime since she had seen any cats, and [i]of course[/i] during a nightmare sequence one would pop up. "Deep breaths, deep breaths, deep breaths. It's just Lucy's. It's just Lucy's."

The cat took a moment to recover and aimed to charge at it again, but Trixie called for him to wait. As much as she didn't want to admit it, felines were much more nimble than her when it came to precise leaping and landing. After the cat's previous attempts, going at it for a straight up attack wasn't the smartest idea. But if he were to approach the monster again with something different in mind...

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Atlas' efforts had tilted a tower in Amy's and Xandra's direction, giving them a means to align themselves with the others. Amy looked to the other and nodded before hitting up the building alongside her. The magician was quick to assist them, before flash stepping to a cog a level above them. The two girls moved onto another platform and continued running this way until they reached a safe spot, one that wasn't dropping out of control.

After a short breather Amy took in her surroundings, looking for who was in immediate need of a healing spell or defense buff. Anything to help. "Xandra," she said, still eying the battle area. "I can't see Marcus or Don from here. Do you think they're..." her voice trailed off momentarily. "...is that--"

Another round of loud rapidfire went off. Anyone looking in Trixie's direction could see her riding atop Lucien's summon as they encircled the Dream Eater in hopes of snagging its attention. With bullets flying in from the distance, it would be easier for the duo to dodge attacks this way. Presumably.