Chapter 290: A Shard Of Wrath - Part 1
The jet of water carved through a destroyed nest and into the snow-covered shore as all three women dodged.
Well, Amarena and Darlae dodged. Brigit got picked up and carried away by her hulking elven wife when she froze in the face of the scything death-water that carved a half-measure-deep line in the stony ground.
As soon as she locked eyes with the matron joermagr, Amarena felt a familiar burning in her chest. The self-loathing of her weakness in the presence of a true monster, a monster who dwarfed her with its size and strength...
A vow crawled out of her lips as she braced on hands and feet.
"I will have my sword back you bitch!" She took off at a sprint, her chest half-lowered to the ground as she held her borrowed blades in a reverse grip, leaving the Gale wives to fight the males, who were still awkwardly trying to fight their way closer to them.
"We need a plan!" She heard Brigit shout but ignored her.
Did she have a plan? No. But if the adoptive mothers of Kir were at least as smart as their son, and already Amarena figured they were smarter than him in some ways, they would follow her lead and try not to get in her way...
A surge of negative pressure began to crawl past Amarena as Brigit began to form a small tornado, which sucked up ice and rock as she took up a position in the eye of the twisting, siphoning gusts.
She hovered away from Darlae, splitting the males’ attentions as her wife readied her warstaff, charging her body with strength and speed beyond its normal measure as she dodged another bite.
Unbeknownst to Amarena, though the wives struck at their attackers, they pulled most of their hits. Merely inflicting pain as they tried to draw the males further ashore.
Amarena had no attention for this, because as she circled the matron upon the ice - her claws digging fiercely for every bit of purchase - the female joermagr launched volley after volley of water jets at her, destroying the ice behind Amarena’s steps and causing massive cracks to form in the measure-thick sheet of the lake’s cover.