[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=cc33ff]Guin Stark[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://i.imgur.com/R0DGpSD.png?1[/img][hr][b][color=cc33ff]Location:[/color][/b] Woods (Mary's Group)
[b][color=cc33ff]Skills:[/color][/b] Telepathic Attacks [hr][hr][/center]	Guin hardly had time to cry out before Mary's vines had flung her. The next thing she knew, pain like she had never experienced before had blossomed throughout her body. Her leg felt like it was on fire - and each breath brought a searing sharp pain, like her ribs had been replaced with knives. The wooziness of her head wound was only compounded by these injuries. She couldn't move, even if she had wanted to. [i][color=cc33ff]H-h-help... I think she's going to kill me[/color][/i] Guin frantically whispered to Pietro. Her heart was pounding furiously. Never before on a mission had she felt this close to death, as if the reaper were already descending upon her. [i][color=cc33ff]I'm scared I'm going to die[/color][/i] Guin admitted. She had always assumed she'd be a Final Girl. Maybe she was wrong. 

	She then noticed that Mystery had stopped coming - she had expected to see the psychopath looming over her, taunting her. But instead, she heard Mystery cry out for Haze. Guin didn't want to unpack what that might have meant. Instead, her survival instincts kicked in and Guin attacked the only way she could - telepathically. It was like trying to kill a bear in the middle of a snowstorm with a butter knife. Guin was mentally flailing around, struggling to get a hold on Mystery's mind. But in the end, just when she was about to lose hope, she did it. She felt Mystery slip into unconsciousness. 

	Guin didn't even realize she was crying. She tried to attack the nearest mind she felt - Phantazia - but to no avail. The pain was making it too hard to think. Her breathing was ragged. All Guin wanted to do was close her eyes and let the darkness take her away... [hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=cc33ff]Lavender Haze[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://2paragraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BEST-WILLA-620x375.jpg[/img][hr][b][color=cc33ff]Location:[/color][/b] Woods (Mary's group)
[b][color=cc33ff]Skills:[/color][/b] Telepathy [hr][hr][/center]	Haze had picked herself up from the forest floor. She hadn't cried when Bloom's attack had sent her flying, breaking her arm in the process. She had had worse injuries thanks to Magneto. She had stopped crying a long time ago. Pain was a constant companion now. It didn't mean it didn't hurt however - and she responded because of it somewhat slower to Mystery's cries for help than she otherwise would have liked to. They had a special bond, the two psychics. 

	"Your tears won't help, you know," Haze told her counterpart. Even as she looked at Guin on the ground, it was more like she was looking past her. She tried to pull out Guin's darkest fears from her mind, but her alternate self blocked her, seemingly aware enough for basic psychic defenses. She went to kick her in the ribs, but Guin somehow rolled away, crying out in pain from the action. Haze's eyes flared in anger. "Fight harder, you coward!" she screamed, the first time she had raised her voice this entire time. She telepathically thrashed Guin, causing Guin to scream in pain, but she didn't manage to knock her unconscious - not yet. 

	"Pathetic. No one is going to save you - so [b]FIGHT HARDER![/b]"[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=#a81a75]Runa Baldurdattir[/color]
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/52Nr16y2/original.gif[/img][/b][/h3][hr][b][color=#a81a75]Location:[/color][/b] the Woods (Runa's group) -> the Mirror Dimension 
[b][color=#a81a75]Skills:[/color][/b] N/A [hr][hr][/center]	Despite the evening of their odds, their situation was getting more and more desperate by the minute. Runa made a quick decision. Both this Klara and Edus seemed amenable to talking. Klara held Annie's fragile life in her hands. Runa picked herself up from the ground, carefully sliding the sling ring Doctor Strange had leant her onto her fingers. [color=#a81a75]"Make a better world, then,"[/color] Runa told Magus. But she couldn't spend too much time reasoning with him - and he seemed to be the more resistant of the two. 

	[color=#a81a75]"Cousin, do not harm her - you do not want her blood on your hands,"[/color] Runa warned, her voice steady even as her heart was pounding. Carefully, she used the sling ring and opened a portal underneath Klara, sending Klara falling into the mirror dimension. Annie was safe - for now. But Runa wasn't going to just leave Klara in the mirror dimension to rattle around there, no, Runa could sense the conflict in her multiversal cousin. Maybe she could be reasoned with. [color=#a81a75]"Do not kill him, unless you have no other choice - I will return, with Klara,"[/color] Runa swore to Bethany and Annie. For a moment, she thought about kissing their cheeks to seal the promise. 

	Instead, Runa jumped through the portal and sealed it behind her, entering the mirror dimension. 

	Her hair fluttered behind her, as if propelled by an invisible wind. Dark energy swirled around her staff, though Gandr immitted its own bright white light ever still. Here in the mirror dimension, they were closer to the dark domains - where creatures like Dormammu would lurk. [color=#a81a75]"I swear to you cousin, what my companions said is true. We are lost, attempting to return home. The crystal in the woods is of the Phoenix and has the power to send us back to where we belong. I know not what has become of you here... but I feel your pain... and would comfort you, if you would allow it."[/color] Runa hesitated for a moment, before embracing Klara. She knew, in that moment, that she was a fool - that this Klara could easily slay her - but Runa was trying to be optimistic, to be hopeful. 

	She was trying to do what she had advised the other Edus - to build a better world. 

	Runa's staff dropped to the ground - a sign of her intentions that she hoped Klara would accept, if the embrace would not suffice.