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Lihn sensed the sheer amount of anger from the insectoid abomination before she saw it, barely registering what happened as it rammed into her. The impact with the floor winded her and stopped her from changing any emotions. Lying there, slightly stunned, she waited for it to all end.

And then there was a sheet of ice on the floor and the creature had fallen on its side. Lihn’s first thought was that Kei had come back. But that couldn’t be right, she had told him to leave. He hadn’t had time to get Thanh out and come back.

The figure the ice coming from wasn’t Kei. Lihn didn’t know who the man was, but was thankful that he had saved her. She could just about hear his words through the overload in his brain, telling her to rain, and what the girl with him said was distant. 

“Running is,” Lihn gritted her teeth as she tried to speak. “Easier… said than done.” 

Slowly she pushed herself onto her shaky legs. Moving in a direction away from the abomination, but not as fast as she would have liked. If they could distract it for just a short amount of time then maybe she could get her mind out of control.

Instead of trying to change the emotions of those around her, forcing the anger down in the creatures, Lihn slowly tried to stop herself from picking up all of the emotions. The rage of the creatures was beginning to build up inside of her and she needed it out. If she could just get a clearer mind, stop the pounding in her head, then she could get out of here.

She kept moving, but slowly due to concentrating, and towards Penny and Daniel. Safety in numbers, right? 

It was beginning to work, anyway, and she was dulling how much of the feelings around her that she sensed. 

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“Kay kay, I’m tired,” Thanh whined, trailing behind Kei as he tugged her along towards the exit of the mall. He cursed the fact that they had ventured so far inside. “And I want mummy.”

“We’ll see your mum soon, don’t worry, we just have to keep moving,” Kei responded softly, keeping a tight grip on the young girl’s hand. They were far enough from Lihn that he could no longer see his sister, but hadn’t moved as fast as he would have liked. At this rate one of the monsters would get to them. Kei wasn’t sure what he could do with just a bottle of water and a ten year old girl to protect. 

“I want to see her now!” Thanh stopped moving, pulling Kei to a halt with her. Her lips were set in a stubborn pout. Chi let out a bark in what Kei assumed was agreement beside her. “Chi too!”

Sighing, Kei let go of her hand and dropped down to her level. “Look, Tani, we need to move. It’s dangerous. Your mum will be fine and you will see her afterwards. She wouldn’t want you to stop.”

“But I don’t want to leave her,” Thanh looked up at him with big brown eyes, before suddenly leaping at Kei and clutching to his leg. “I’m scared!” 

Chi’s growling caused Kei to look up from the now tearful child. An abomination was lumbering towards them, and faster than they could get away from it. Morphed into some kind of hulking beast it looked it could take them both out in one head. 

Kei grabbed Thanh, scooping the thankfully still small girl up into his arms and slowly backing away. He opened the bottle of water he had with him and poured it out, turning it to ice before it hit the ground and causing it to hover in front of him. It was a measly amount and unlikely to help. But what else could he do. He formed it into a spear as he continued to back away. Chi was still growling, teeth bared, having not moved a step and facing down the abomination.

“Thanh, get Chi to move away,” Kei looked down at the strangely limp girl in his arms. There was no response. She was still breathing at least. Shit, the last thing he needed to deal with was this too. Lihn had told him about how her powers were developing and, well, now was not the time for her to use it.

The abomination swung at Chi, but the dog just got out of the way with a yelp. Kei shot the icicle he had at it but only succeeded in getting its attention to be on him. [i]Shit[/i].

As if by some miracle the sprinklers turned on. Kei relaxed the normally tight control he kept over his temperature reducing power, beginning to emit a cold aura. The water that fell around him turned to small shards of ice and smashed as it hit the ground. 

Quickly Kei increased the area in which the temperature was below zero, hugging Thanh close to conserve her warmth, and began to change the water around him into ice. The abomination charged at him without giving him much time to think of what to do.

As fast as he could Kei erected a large wall of ice in front of him, while turning the water that now coated the ground into a sheet of ice. Propelling himself forward Kei let himself fall onto his back, ignoring how the impact hurt and protecting Thanh’s body with his own. They slid away from the wall as the abomination crashed into it and the ice shattered. It slowed it down enough to let Kei slide further away but didn’t seem to do much damage to it.

If Kei could find a place to put Thanh, where she would be safe, then he maybe had a chance facing this thing.