Toby sighed. "What else should I do? Let the town die?" 

"Toby... there are some things you can do and some things you can't. Remember when I was burned by that mimic's acid bomb?"

"Yeah. You were only ten years old, roughly. I remember fighting alongside your aunt Tala to defeat it."

"Right. That was something you could do then, but I couldn't. Grandma Iskra had to take me upstairs because I couldn't handle it, even though I wanted to fight alongside you, my friend."

"Is there a point to this? The lights are about to come down again?"

"I'm saying there are some thing that you can and cannot handle. The town can be evacuated. Nyx is right, you're only going to get yourself killed. You're not invincible, you know. Even you will get tired sooner or later."

Toby growled. "I couldn't save my mother, but I can save these people!" He turned to Nyx. "I'm not sure where the lights are coming from, but there is a cave in the hills near here that lights up at night. I think someone's in there, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it." He pointed at the mountains in the distance. "Someone or something is in there but I don't know if-" 

The lights appeared again, hanging over the town. "Here they come again!" Toby flew into the air again, but his left wing gave out, and he fell to the ground. Luckily, he wasn't very far up.