[quote=thewizardguy]
The claw slowly rips through the arcanum, pain spreading from the point where the shell of magic is pierced. However, as you produce the teddy bear, the girl opens her eyes, and stops screaming. The mysterious dark being seems to shimmer, the claw stopping it's advance. Slowly, the girl seems to be starting to calm down, although she's still shivering, and looking at you uncertainly.
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the shell seems to totally cancel out the shadow being's attacks ((the nature of arcanum is total control but you have to identify the the enemy's arcanum comp before you can nullify it and i'm guessing it'd be in the death tree so life would cancel it out no matter the strength)). micheal offers her the teddy with a small smile saying "here, it's all yours" in a soft voice