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

Ophelia was much surer that this attempt would work, though she was not discouraged when it failed to do so. Reasons as to why flashed before her mind's eye, but they were gone as quickly as they came in the face of the immediacy of the the task ahead of them--though Ophelia did permit herself a moment to attempt to commune with the Holy Moonlight Sword once more: [i]Reuniting you... can I do it while Arrayah lives? Is it instant? Should we slay her first?[/i] 

The barrage of questions was hurried, though confident: they'd made it this far without losing anyone, and Arrayah seemed to be on the back foot. If there was an opportunity to simply end the fight Ophelia felt inclined to take it, figuring the Moonborn would absorb all of the echoes if they [i]did[/i] kill Arrayah while they were still here and the true prize--especially after what they'd seen--was the blade.

Recognising the fear and panic within Arrayah, Ophelia saw fit to test another of her theories: she reloaded her Evelyn, stowed it temporarily, fed her own blade another quicksilver bullet and moved back a step, amd then as Arrayah went to punch for Torquil and Gerlinde was hacking away Ophelia fired another slice of coruscating cosmic energy scything up towards Arrayah's thinnest arm at the wrist, hoping to either cause her to drop it owing to the damage (which she found unlikely) or causing Arrayah to panic and make a clumsy and enraged overhead attack with her weapon. In such an eventuality Ophelia was ready to try and parry it again, though her primary focus was still not getting hit and she braced herself to quickstep out of the way of danger and interrupt anything she was doing to do so.