[Training] immediate regret

And I came to, walking on the train tracks
How did I get here? And how do I get back?

Of course the man had the audacity to grin over his shoulder at her. Alys didn't even know why she was surprised anymore, given Deimos's penchant for mischief, but just when she thought she had him figured out, he pulled something like this "race" and piss her off all over again. (Okay, to be fair, she was more resigned than pissed off, usually, but this one was really irritating her.)

Her rock fell uselessly to the ground, nowhere close to hitting the hellhound that was Deimos, and now Alys was even further behind for having slowed to throw it. The upside of that was that she had plenty of warning when sprouts of fire began to emerge from Deimos's paws, lighting a patchwork of flames across the greenery that made things even harder for Alys - now she couldn't even run a straight line to the rock, but had to weave back and forth around patches of fire.

She did so - begrudgingly. He was out of the range of her magic, she wasn't about to try and throw another rock, and she had no bright ideas of how else to slow him down, so she focused simply on trying to not fall further behind.

I've been up all night, let's stay awake
Push it further, you know I'll never break

Alys