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

Time seemed to slow as Torquil approached Arrayah to unleash his attack - and Ophelia watched it all with a rapturous intensity, eager to see exactly what unleashing Fulmen with its current charge would do. She could feel the anticipation building within her as he moved and as he activated the mechanism, only for a brief moment of trepidation to overcome her as nothing happened for the first instant. She saw the actinic glow begin to build immediately thereafter and her spirits rose once more, reminded of what Paarl had done to the Moonborn, only this wasn't [i]quite[/i] that powerful. Still--to capture even the barest fraction of that incredible power in a tool that they could wield reminded her that the relics and fragments of otherworldly beings they sought after with such voraciousness and avarice were not the only path to power, and that the hands of man could perhaps one day approach that power without fundamentally altering themselves as so many had done to channel the power of the cosmos.

When the explosion happened Ophelia was staring directly at it, shocked and awed, and surely some of her untapped regenerative potential went to ameliorating that damage--as well as the damage to her ears that the thunderclap would no doubt do. She was so focused that the sensations seemed distant, any blindness to do with the intensity of the light rather than any damage looking at it might have done, and as she regained use of her faculties her mind sprang back into action like a coiled spring unleashed.

"Farren, disarm her!" She shouted as loudly as she could, hoping it would reach him in the very brief window of time they had to take advantage of this moment of potential. Winning was [i]not[/i] killing Arrayah, but liberating the blade she wielded--if they had a chance to do so now, for Ophelia to take possession and bend the presence within to her will, well... she would take it. The Moonborn Hunter, this aspect of them at least, would no doubt seek to take advantage of the opening and do a tremendous amount of damage. That, combined with what Fulmen and Torquil had done, had Ophelia imagining that Arrayah might well be forced to transform the Profane Abyssal Blade... and if she were disarmed of it, that would be a very good thing for them indeed. It probably wouldn't work, that much she knew, but she would regret not at least trying. As she spoke she quickstepped laterally towards Farren's position at maximum distance, which would hopefully allow her to rush in and grab the blade if they did manage to wrest it from their foe, but also put her in a more advantageous position to assist with whatever happened next if not.