Quite confused by what was happening, Joachim stopped and watched her leap into battle with the weird snake monster. Why had she sounded so put-off? Did he do something wrong? He couldn't really think of what, not in the short time he had before she'd attacked their predator.

The coal frightened the snake unmistakeably, it dodged it's agile head out of the way and watched the glowing coal soar by it. What it did not dodge, however, was the point of her spear snicker-snacking it's way through the air and scoring into it's softer pale underbelly. With a hiss of anguish, it slithered back with lightning speed and then raised both of it's spikes. As it chopped them through the air, Joachim reacted just enough to batter one of them off-course from Sef's vital bits. The other descended with bloody revenge on it's mind.