Theodore had been preparing another bolt to be fired, but then... all this happened. The shadow hopped onto his back, only to be shaken off without much effort. At worst it might have hampered his concentration, but he had trained long enough to not be bothered by such attempts. As soon as he got his eyes off the little shadow, the huge shadow threw its orb at Thea and that impact looked nasty. The darkness spreading from it didn't make it appear any less so, but the flash of brilliant radiance the cut through those tendrils. The light that was the light to pierce the heavens themselves vanquished the leviathan. They had won...

Or so he had believed. As soon as the creature had burned away, so did the world around them. The steady pace the world had been disappearing in accelerated like someone had kicked it in the rear for slacking off at work, everything vanishing in a near instant, only with the sound of some great lock opening accompanying the destruction. Well, if they were to go down, at least taking down the forces of darkness as their last act of defiance was an achievement on its own right. The doors of light and the figure reaching for them were left behind, unwillingly as it was. Theodore still reached out in as futile of an attempt as the last shadow's attack had been. But no, his way went downwards.

The fall was long, a bit too long if one asked him. However, what would come as the end result he could not have expected: He found himself sailing through the sky of an unknown place in an unknown time and by some just as unknown force he did not sustain injuries as he collided with the ground and many of his bolts rained down around him. After a short slide in the grassy hillside, he sat up just in time to see the rest of the show unfold. Haemar tumbling down on his left, catching Wick after he had almost recovered. He was already about to go see if the two were okay, but then Thea came down. As with everyone else here, it was not done with the grace of an angel, but he still worried about the hit she had taken... and that landing looked rough.

Theodore decided he could gather his belongings later and took off to a run towards the paladin. Her blade fell dangerously close to her, but luckily it did not make direct impact. As he got close enough, Theodore called out "Thea, you okay?" The fellow Aasimar had only recently stopped, so she seemed to be still somewhat out of it. The ranger knelt next to her and shook her shoulder. "Hey, that was a bad hit you took back then... are you okay?" he repeated his question.

And then the glorious splash of Cesar introducing themselves to the lake happened, accompanied by Katia flying towards a nearby cluster of trees. Well, at least the two had something to cushion the fall. Now that he thought of it, he didn't hurt either. What was this all about? Had they not just fallen from a height that would surely kill a lesser man? Theodore would have smiled, were it not for his worry about his companions. The Kingdom of Light had to recognise its heroes. That was the only explanation.

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