Book 5: Chapter 18 — Thornback (2)
Metamorphosis time remaining: 118 seconds.
It felt strange having Tony flap his wings for him, having no direct feeling or control of where his limbs moved. The disconnect between physical reflex and innate draconic instinct was vaguely disorienting, but right now any movement was better than staying trapped on the ground.
Noah hovered just below the ceiling while he tried to think of a new plan and waited for the paralysis and venom to wear off.
Below, Noah’s Bloodwyrm and Vera’s viper were a writhing tangle of elongated bodies as each tried to gain an upper coil over the other.
Vera, face locked in a scowl, had her sword out but hesitated to attack lest she hit her own familiar.
So her weapon ignores the phase shift, Noah noted. He could do the same with Void Annihilation, so it was probably irrelevant, but he’d take every scrap of information he could get.
Korgan’s arm-blades withdrew back into his body as he hopped up onto his mantis’s back. “You had to go and make this complicated, eh boy? Last chance to resolve this and go our separate ways.”
“I don’t know what to tell you,” Noah called down, a little halting.
Tony is not used to doing everything, his symbiote said apologetically.