There was certainly a very tempting aspect to that approach, of leaving the gods to their own devices. He'd dug himself in too deep to walk away now, though, and despite Safrin's disdain he still had Ludo's patience and favor, and he treasured that more than he feared the star-eyed goddess's wrath. Loren's question, though, likely boded ill for the answer... though seeing Loren smirking and grinning wickedly while trapped in an ice-filled hole in the ground was certainly a look that was both unsettling and humorous. "I do - but first..." First they had a spar to finish!
And it was going so well, too. Loren was happily(?) caught in the icy hole and the dome freed Jigano from the steam cloud. He began to draw his earth magic to him to secure the dome until he could figure out a way to deal with the ice, but he had been, perhaps, a little overly-optimistic about how much time he had before Loren retaliated.
The dome shattered as the pressure within it became too much to contain, especially since Jigano wasn't making an effort to maintain it once it had dropped into place. Water and earth exploded out, catching the bard off guard with the sudden violence of the flying debris. For a moment he saw double, memories of Fiat Lux overlaid on the mountain jungle, and he stumbled back, battered by the water even as he instinctively deflected the earth. The wave washed him to the edge of a clearing where he struck hard against a tree trunk and slid to the ground at its base, dazed and struggling to focus enough to pull the strings of his Healing magic into order to fix the head injury that had already begun to throb at the base of his skull from the impact.
And it was going so well, too. Loren was happily(?) caught in the icy hole and the dome freed Jigano from the steam cloud. He began to draw his earth magic to him to secure the dome until he could figure out a way to deal with the ice, but he had been, perhaps, a little overly-optimistic about how much time he had before Loren retaliated.
The dome shattered as the pressure within it became too much to contain, especially since Jigano wasn't making an effort to maintain it once it had dropped into place. Water and earth exploded out, catching the bard off guard with the sudden violence of the flying debris. For a moment he saw double, memories of Fiat Lux overlaid on the mountain jungle, and he stumbled back, battered by the water even as he instinctively deflected the earth. The wave washed him to the edge of a clearing where he struck hard against a tree trunk and slid to the ground at its base, dazed and struggling to focus enough to pull the strings of his Healing magic into order to fix the head injury that had already begun to throb at the base of his skull from the impact.
