Very intriguing work. Tatiana's ready to throw down for real. Is there a specific direction you wanted things to go or a specific way you intended to have the demons react here? I'm unsure how they would proceed with this newfound passivity.  Especially since I'm being asked what's going on.

Also, not too big of an issue, but I'm curious whether Tatiana's name was mistakenly used in place of Astraea's in this paragraph or if she was actually meant to intervene here. Either way works. I'm just wishing to know:

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Time seemed to freeze. The black lance was inching closer and closer, the point of its head gleaming with the cold light of the morning sun. In the second before it reached her, Tatiana shifted her body and adjusted her spear, summoning every ounce of Omestrian ether swimming in the vials at her belt and guided the gleaming torrent of energy into her catalyst. A golden paling, translucent like water but hard as steel, formed around her. She gripped the spear with all her strength, her armored-fingers tightening around the shaft
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