[center][h2][b]Ophelia[/b][/h2][/center]

Ophelia darted into action the very instant she realised that the blast of light would miss, quickstepping up to the top of the stairs to go through the other end while Farren dallied in his panic. It turned out that the idea of sweet Torquil contending with that thing motivated her to move even more than fear demanded she delay like Farren, having lost too many people already to even consider letting another fall. She grabbed the Evelyn from her hip as she quickstepped and upon arrival at the entrance where she could see what was going on aimed it at the largest of the bulbous eyes that she could see atop the thing's head-brain and fired the loaded quicksilver bullet within directly into the its pupil--and then quickstepped again, holstering the gun again while she loaded another quicksilver bullet into the Holy Moonlight Sword. It was less than ideal to do what she was doing with Torquil so close, but as she witnessed the dawning horror of the Winter Lantern grabbing her friend she shrieked to match its own, her sudden movement bringing her to a crouching position by Torquil's left side, where she immediately attempted to thrust the Holy Moonlight Sword's luminescent point upwards into the centre of the bulbous mass and loose its devastating explosion within its head. It mattered not that they were close by, that Torquil was, perhaps even that Farren was by that time. It mattered not whether she felt the quivering tension of Frenzy's riotous influence building within her, nor the puncturing of the queer feathery quills that she had briefly seen within Torquil, she would see it through no matter the cost to save him from the snapping jaws of death itself.

She made herself ready to follow up again, either by bearing down with her strikes or dodging the Winter Lantern's retaliation--but more pressingly, if Torquil was injured enough to warrant it and not clearly dead, she'd swiftly grab a blood vial and stab him with it to preserve his life even at the cost of becoming the Lantern's next victim. They had lost too much already, and not knowing whether a death in the Dream was final, she would take no chances.