[SWE] The Festival of Fiat Lux!

Those who had run to face the monster were supposed to have stopped it. Loren with his powerful magic, the mysterious fish-cat, Pim and his companion Phoebe, and whoever else had been in the right place at the right time. Jigano had started people moving away from the coming behemoth as a precaution, not because he truly thought that they'd fail.

The cracking of ice sounded like the chimes of Mort across the festival, and Jigano looked up in horror as fragments of crystal shattered beneath the mud monster's bulk and came flying through the air towards those revelers who had been behind the shield. He ducked instinctively, dragging up a thin sheet of rock in front of him and Tarasha as the first icy daggers cut through the air, slicing his cheek, shoulder, and the back of his hand as he flung it up to defend his face.

The screams started immediately as the scent of blood rose to his sensitive nose. The earthen shield crumbled as a larger chunk of mud-covered ice struck it, a fist-sized piece of rock-hard water tumbling through to strike Jigano's brow, spinning him back and dropping him senseless to the ground before he had time to react.

What came next he wouldn't know, a growing spill of crimson mixing with the muddy earth beneath his head and staining his white braids dark as he fell into starless night.