we are just bodies of the faithful stacked dozens by the roadside
He pursues her, and she’s glad for it. The plan she has in mind is incredibly harebrained and dangerous, but Ru is confident enough in her abilities to be reckless. She knows she can’t outmaneuver him in these flighted forms, so she waits until he is as close as she feels she can aptly presume between mental timing and the far-reaching field of vision her bird eyes have -
And then she shifts.
She hangs for a brief moment in the air, suspended in her human form, before gravity pulls at her. As it does, she wraps herself in her lightning like a cloak, calling it to her with all her might so that the storm clouds might gather and the lightning itself extends around her in a giant ball as she plummets. Hoping to catch Deimos in the melee of chaos as she does.
And then she shifts.
She hangs for a brief moment in the air, suspended in her human form, before gravity pulls at her. As it does, she wraps herself in her lightning like a cloak, calling it to her with all her might so that the storm clouds might gather and the lightning itself extends around her in a giant ball as she plummets. Hoping to catch Deimos in the melee of chaos as she does.
HOTARU
