Chapter 91: Memories
Necia did. It was the hardest thing Tulland had ever watched. Necia was just strong enough to stand toe to toe with the badly injured sphinx, but that also meant she was taking hit after hit without her new skill to help her. On the ground, none of the monster’s hits had the same bone-shattering power that the dives had. But they did cut, hook, shred, and otherwise destroy flesh anywhere they found a gap in the armor.
Necia gave as good as she got, desperately hacking away at the animal and screaming at Tulland to get back any time his instincts told him to take a desperate, suicidal and ultimately useless attack run at the monster. It was a bloody, brutal fight, one which left her looking worse than many monsters they had actually killed together.
“Don’t. Just… let me catch my breath. I can’t stand just yet.” Necia looked like she was going to cry. “I don’t know what to do. I can’t kill another one. I can’t run fast enough like this.”
“Just eat.” Tulland put a fruit in her mouth. “Your regeneration works faster when you sit still, right?”
“All of them do. Mine particularly so.”
“Then heal. As fast as you can.”
“I won’t be able to move fast after this. And it will track us.”
“I know. Just trust me, okay? I have a plan.”
“Will it work?” Necia asked.