I count your heartbeats before you sleep
I bite my fingernails to bone
Braced as she is on one knee, it's less of a disturbance when the ice beneath her is hooked and dragged, bumping up against the others on the surface - and most notably, Hotaru's. Evie is no slacker when it comes to close-quarters fighting given how often she and Deimos train, but use of magic this close becomes tricky, risking catching herself in the blowback. Especially given the type of magic she's using. I bite my fingernails to bone
This time, Hadama is the one to step in and support her before the Valkyrie can attack, and Evie doesn't waste the opportunity. Using her own air to bolster the stream of Hadama's, strengthening it and funneling it directly at Hotaru, Evie takes a page from the Tidebreaker's book and utilizes another magic in tandem. From below, the water surges on one side of Hotaru's ice floe, hoping to thrust and buck her off while Hadama is safely below the surface and not at risk of getting thumped in the head.
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Evie doubles her air magic with Hadama's, and uses her water magic to make Ru's ice floe lift up sharply on one side to try and throw her off.
And now I crawl back under the stairwell
To a place I call my home
To a place I call my home
Evie
