[KQ] Big A(spire)rations

Ashe registered that her lightning had torn the beast’s jaws away from Ronin when it spun and shrieked at her, and the sight of her best friend’s - no, her brother’s blood dripping from its teeth had her blood turning to ice in her veins. Her eyes were wide on the sightless creature’s face, but she grit her teeth in a snarl and pressed her lightning further in. In and in and in, she pressed in that cage. Electricity was not solid, she knew. It could break through if it could withstand the electrocution. With her wildly racing heart, the assassin snapped her eyes away from the creature as it bled from where she’d slashed through its neck. She looked at Ronin, at Roana, and there was a terrifying twist in her gut. Run. They had to run. ”Koel, get them out of here!” she called to her friend. One or both of them would need his support to get away, and she wasn’t exactly the best candidate in supporting anyone’s weight for a speedy getaway. Ashe returned her attention to the beast and growled, and she raised her sword to the sky. Lightning crackled down with a deafening crack! and hit the blade. Without waiting even a second, she angled her blade for the spire beast, sending that powerful bolt into the cage. She hoped to stun it, paralyze it for even a moment to keep it within that cage just a little bit longer. ”I’ll hold it, just fucking run!” She knew she couldn’t kill it on her own - that thing had hit both former captains with speed that rivaled a bloodfiend, and the way its blood boiled and steamed.. And hells, where it had bitten Ronin looked deeply infected within seconds. Ashe trembled as she built upon her cage, layering it as deeply as she could as she pressed it further in on the creature. It was fear that assaulted her senses, fear and rage. She didn’t want to think about what was going to happen when her cage stopped holding it. Ashe finally flicked her blazing eyes up to Koel, to Roana. It was Ronin whos eyes she met, and she held his gaze. ”I’m right behind you,” she promised. Ashe refocused her attention on her power, on what held the creature. She carefully side-stepped out of its reach, around it so that she faced both it and the spire again. ”I’ll be back for you,” she growled to that ravenous thing, and she fucking meant it. It wouldn’t be until Ashe knew that her friends were gone, were moving away, that she would go after them. She was shaking - from fear or exhaustion she wasn’t sure - but she would not drop that cage until they had run.. and only then would she flee after them. ashetta it's live or die my way.