Boreal had started her dive even as Tal jumped out from behind the rocks. The courier kept one eye on the fighting lials, ready to run if they started coming towards him, but for the moment they were distracted by each other and the brutal combat they were engaged in.
The spear rose on Mastered Air before Boreal could reach it, and the dragon shifted her focus abruptly, breathing a cone of fire along the small lial's far side as she swooped low and then pulled up, staying wisely out of range. It did nothing to harm the lava-born reptile, but it did distract it into snapping towards the sudden heat and pressure - and away from Tal.
The courier grabbed the floating spear, no grin now but only grim determination as he took the opportunity his allies had bought him and drove the weapon home into the lial's side, just behind its foreleg where lung and hopefully heart resided.
It whipped back towards him, hissing like a steam engine in pain and fury and twisting to try and snap at the spear but its rocky teeth slid off the metal haft as it scrabbled all four legs, trying to back away from the wound in its side.
Which was about the time that Big Momma let out a rumbling roar of victory as the lial beneath her went limp, and her beady black gaze began to wander towards the motion a little ways off.
The spear rose on Mastered Air before Boreal could reach it, and the dragon shifted her focus abruptly, breathing a cone of fire along the small lial's far side as she swooped low and then pulled up, staying wisely out of range. It did nothing to harm the lava-born reptile, but it did distract it into snapping towards the sudden heat and pressure - and away from Tal.
The courier grabbed the floating spear, no grin now but only grim determination as he took the opportunity his allies had bought him and drove the weapon home into the lial's side, just behind its foreleg where lung and hopefully heart resided.
It whipped back towards him, hissing like a steam engine in pain and fury and twisting to try and snap at the spear but its rocky teeth slid off the metal haft as it scrabbled all four legs, trying to back away from the wound in its side.
Which was about the time that Big Momma let out a rumbling roar of victory as the lial beneath her went limp, and her beady black gaze began to wander towards the motion a little ways off.
