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[color=ed1c24]Location[/color]: Underground complex, Lab area, Stritzel's Estate, Western Kindeance.
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There had been a plan.

[color=ed1c24][i]Shit, shit shit![/i][/color]

And if it weren't conceited to say, Veronica would like to have thought it was a good one.

[color=ed1c24][i]Fuck, fuck fuck![/i][/color]

But you know what they say about plans and first contact...

Veronica's charge briefly stalled, as the massive unknown bear immediately proved himself to be unfortunately and [i]aggressively[/i] hostile. [color=ed1c24][i]Nothing that large should be capable of moving that fast,[/i][/color] was her first thought. The second concern was largely with the fact that the redheaded mage wasn't the first potential target to appear. A lot of things started happening very quickly, yet for all her experience, even with a flash of precognition, Veronica could only shamefully admit that she hesitated, got lost in her thoughts.

And that hesitation cost them. Or maybe it hadn't, and she was just blaming herself needlessly? Thoughts for later.

Varya managed to dodge the surprise attack of the giant bear, even managed to get behind it and slash at his legs, but the sudden spark of magic from the mage and the counterattack of said bear sent him flying backwards out of sight in a flash of movement. Veronica's vision flashed towards the immediate future. She saw herself rounding the corner, saw the mage slamming a prison door behind Varya, taking him well out of the fight.

[color=ed1c24][i]Fuck, fuck fuck, we needed him to keep the frontline busy![/i][/color]

She could hear the bear sisters shouting something, hear Solomon calling upon one of his undead servants, but her own focus was on her own situation. Her run had briefly paused, as the vampire absorbed how fast things went wrong. Yet, her momentum had not wholly halted, and her thoughts whirled with ways to turn this to her advantage. She had paused right before rounding the corner, right before she would be in direct eyesight of the mage, and the immediate future told her-

[color=ed1c24][i]That will work.[/i][/color]

She slowed her pace further, lightening her footsteps from a dead sprint, silencing her passage with practiced footwork. And in the split moment that she had to react, in the brief moment the mage turned around to magically shut the cell door behind Varya and lock him within, Widernia's voice heard gloating at the victory, Veronica breezed around the corner like a whisper, passing into the redheaded mage's blind-spot. She held her scythe far aloft to her right, ensuring its bulk stayed hidden within the blind-spot as well, as Veronica circled the mage from behind, matching her turn with inhuman dexterity and grace.

And as the mage turned around to berate the giant bear and speak some strangely emphasized word, Veronica flashed her precognition again, whipping her scythe around one-handedly with inhuman strength, so that it would pass right underneath the mage's chin, blade bared before her neck... As Veronica's posture shifted, right leg raising in a snap-chambered side kick, aiming to ram her foot into Widernia's back from behind and then jerk the scythe back in the same movement to immediately behead her without hesitation.