[h2]Miina Malina[/h2]

Fall back or be shredded by a storm of ice and push on towards the actual goal. It was a very simple choice when it came down to it: [i]victory[/i] was stopping Valheim from getting what they wanted and she wasn't about to lose to the invaders or let them destroy even more than they already [i]had[/i]. Such as, say, be siphoning all the aether from an Eidolon and binding it into another construct of theirs.

She'd rather not destabilise magic even further.

–Which meant that her clothes and armour had to hold up against something they weren't [i]really[/i] meant for. Sure, she was geared for cold weather, but this was [i]much[/i] more than that. It [i]hurt[/i], even if her ruined nerves meant it was only distantly, and a glance down showed blood. Lots of it. Not enough to be incapacitating, though. She ought to be able to heal in a minute, so long as he didn't have free reign to turn around and launch another one of those at her.

Of course, invisibility was less useful when you were leaving a trail of red too, so… she had to push herself the rest of the distance. Now she just had to… well, [i]Miina[/i] bad been thinking Dispel. She knew that, could [i]use[/i] that, without problem. The area version, though? Like the largest offensive spells, the one she'd just foolishly [i]pushed through[/i], the Mystrel didn't know how to do that properly. She needed more time to work out what separated them from their lower tier counterparts, there ought to be more than just flooding the area with the same pattern of aether repeated again and again…

But she had a catalyst now, didn't she? Oh, it wouldn't make this [i]feasible[/i], it was still going to be almost the limit of her abilities and contribution – but it made it faster, everything flowed [i]smoother[/i]. And that's exactly what she needed, it would be [i]fast[/i].

[i]"Dispelja."[/i] 

Hopefully that would be enough; she couldn't do it [i]again.[/i] And [i]fuck[/i], she'd caught herself too, revealing one more-red-than-normal mage sunk to one knee.