[right][color=1462ba][i][h2]Mariette[/h2][/i][/color][color=57a345][h3][i]and Eli[/i][/h3][/color][/right]

(before policemen arrived) Mariette ignored the rest of the words from Suwako and Alicia. She had a line on her tongue about how “as long as Justine’s a threat, it is my greatest interest to-”, but that would imply she’d turn on them the moment of their victory, so she didn’t.

Later. Eli was first looking a tad curiously at Libby Bibby, considering just how this girl could have developed this kind of personality, then Eli went and shot by a policeman.

[color=57a345]‘Yow!’[/color] Eli jumped back and crouched after the bullet plunged straight through her liquid body, wing going to hold over the place where she was hit. Yow, that actually hurt, somehow. [color=57a345]‘Police brutality! Police brutality! I didn’t even do anything!’[/color] she called, though still joking. … Okay, so it wasn’t as funny without Deni around… It used to be the two of them joking back-and-forth… Eli sighed and waited for it to stop hurting.

Then she proceeded to hold on as the craft started moving, as detailed.

Meanwhile, Mariette holding onto a mirror with her tentacles trying to hold her in place while also drawing circular markings around the mirror. The very rapid stop was about to throw her off, but a few tentacles lashed out and hit portals right behind her which led to solid surfaces on the roof so they could brace her. 

Mariette felt slight relief seeing that Amber apparently had an epiphany about how to control the place. … And then she quickly spun the portal that was connecting to Amber when the girl blew up her cheeks, because Mariette wasn’t curious enough to find out what she was doing to potentially risk getting soaked if the pirate was intending on sending water into her face. She settled for listening to Sue diffusing whatever that was, and then listening to Amber’s confirmation. Okay, then.

She had no confirmation of where to go, but the ship was done, sooo.

Without another word, Mariette poured in her magic into Asengav’s mirror, through her tentacles, drawing out the peculiar shape her tentacles was making to complete this minor ritual. As the mana surged through her tentacles into the mirror, it projected said magic through unseen space, greatly amplifying it and placing it in front of the ship. There, a portal now took shape. 

The frame took shape like a dark serpent suddenly slithering out from nowhere on the right side of the ground. At a speed like a plane sweeping by it slithered through the air in a great arc to create a massive circle, large enough to drive through. Then, the contents of the circle became hazy, then complete darkness. Leaving it dark was intentional on Mariette’s part, borrowed power from Asengav’s mirror, since actually letting people (or things on the other side) see through such a massive portal into the other world could be… bad.

All the same, it meant a portal to the Overcity was open for them. The reflective witch had intentionally placed the other side a bit aways from where she had felt Justine, to ensure they shouldn’t necessarily be ambushed upon arrival to the best of her knowledge. Mariette was holding the portal steady by focusing power on the mirror and using tentacles on portals behind her to keep herself steady against it.

[color=186cc7]‘Go!’[/color] she called to Amber. A portal of this size and to a separate plane of existence was just a [i]tad[/i] more draining than a regular portal, meaning Mariette would rather not have to maintain it for long.

And then there was another detail. Mariette’s portals couldn’t go through her portals. They were etched in the magical energy she had charged into their current location, and her magic energy that were maintaining portals could not themselves pass through the portals. Meaning, these braces she had created to keep her from falling due to this craft’s acceleration? Yeah, those would vanish as they passed through. … Mariette affirmed to herself she’d have her tentacles deal with it somehow.