[...what the fuck was that? it was unlike anything she'd seen before in all of her travels. not even Jan, mad as he was, had created something such a being, danger roiling off of it? him? like the way pavement would seem to shimmer in high heat. and of course the sword was a dead giveaway that he was up to no good.

Tinya's gaze sharpened. this wasn't the first time she'd gone up against something that seemed to outclass her and she was sure it wouldn't be the last]

"He does," Tinya asked, carefully concealing the alarm she felt at that. But the look of fear on Sharon's face made her resolve to do whatever it took to take that fear away.

"Of course he does. Why wouldn't he," Tinya asked, trying to balance seriousness and fearlessness.

When the wires and rebar erupted from the ground and tears forward, she took to the sky, grateful that her Legion flight ring worked here, unleashing lightning on the being from the sky while dodging wires and rebar. One of the wires still managed to get her upper arm, cutting deeply enough to leave a wound, blood running down her arm. "Damnit!"

"Sharon! Do you want me to pick you up, get you to higher ground?"