Pain swallowed everything, a white-hot burning in her veins.

Yumi's mind had been racing to the point it felt time was slowing. She had had the perfect maneuver planned out in her head. The wet crunch of the bug's guts as her scythe hooked in. The gut-wrenching swing that ensued as she defied gravity. It had all gone so well.

But plans never survive first contact.

The blade of her beloved weapon shattered like glass. Her eyes widened as the fragments of steel tumbled impossibly slowly before her eyes. One carved a bloody line across her cheek, but she hardly registered it.

Her eyes turned downward as she fell. As she saw the stone spire rushing up toward her, she twisted as far as her body would go, desperately trying to dodge it, but...

		...a white-hot burning in her veins...

				...then nothing...

The pit, the wind, the pain: everything vanished at once, stripped away so completely it felt unreal. In their place was only white. Endless, silent white, stretching in every direction like an empty room with no walls, no floor, no ceiling. No sensation. No sound. Her mind had severed itself from the outside world entirely, desperately trying to spare her from the agony ripping through her body. Curled tightly against herself in the endless white, Yumi barely registered her own breathing. The silence wrapped around her like a cocoon, numbing, distant, safe.

Then something pierced it: a sickening, wet crunch.

Her eyes immediately snapped open to see Yume get hit by another spire, half her body already scorched from one of the beams of light.

Any thought of her own pain vanished as Yumi kicked off the stone spear that had nearly killed her moments ago. She caught Yume in her arms, carefully turning in midair to shield the witch with her own body. [color=a8d7e8][i]This time...I'm saving you...Hikari...[/i][/color] She silently repeated the vow in her head as she tried to dodge the shit surrounding them. She barely registered Michael's effort to slow their descent, her vision flickering as she struggled to stay conscious.[hr]Actions:
1: BFF Catch | Grade B
[quote][Precision] B [Fast] E [Acrobatics] E [Fast] E [Jumping] F
4 post cooldown
[i]Catch Yume and pray for mercy.[/i][/quote]
2-3: Pray | Grade E
[quote][Fast] E [Acrobatics] E [Fast] E [Jumping] F [Energized] E
1 post cooldown
[i]Pray for mercy and try to dodge shit while holding Yume.[/i][/quote]
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