Flashback is a useful tool for sure - already, she has stunned a few of the smaller spirits that have slipped past defenses farther ahead as she holds her position in front of the bunker door that leads down into the silo. Most of the spirits either hold long enough for her to shoot them, or go skittering off into the trees, no longer a threat.
Several minutes pass in which she's able to catch her breath. Their allied spirits are doing good work, as are the other Beacon residents around her, so she pauses to reload her revolver, and that's when the door opens.
Not the one behind her, but one in the air before her. A gap in the forest and snow widens until it's large enough for her to walk through, though of course she doesn't - this is clearly a trick, and the potion keeps her focused enough to know that what she's seeing can't be real, especially when the spirit walks through that door.
It's roughly her own height, and stands on two legs, with two tiny arms, a long tail, and a toothy head. Picture a human-sized Tyrannosaurus rex, and then picture (instead of dinosaur skin) that it seems to be composed of overlapping, twisted small humanoid bodies, with more lumped over its face as a sort of mask.
It lunges, and she fires. Each shot, in those few seconds, knocks one of the bodies off; they fall limply to the snow, revealing another layer of limbs and heads just below. It's more than she can fight on her own, and an attempted use of Flashback only seems to provoke a shocked expression on one of the small human-ish parts of its torso.
Others notice and try to come to her help (she even sees a green-eyed spirit turn and stare in her direction before galloping toward her) but none are quick enough to save her life as it grapples her and pries those tiny hands on tiny arms into her abdomen. She fires again and again, dropping parts of its head and chest to the snow as it tears through flesh and intestines and throws them carelessly aside.
The green-eyed spirit bowls into it and knocks it off of her, but it's too late - that flash of green eyes is the last thing she sees before she succumbs to her injuries. But her lantern is unharmed - so as long as someone manages to survive, as long as that World Eater doesn't succeed in its single-minded goal, she'll be back eventually.
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Several minutes pass in which she's able to catch her breath. Their allied spirits are doing good work, as are the other Beacon residents around her, so she pauses to reload her revolver, and that's when the door opens.
Not the one behind her, but one in the air before her. A gap in the forest and snow widens until it's large enough for her to walk through, though of course she doesn't - this is clearly a trick, and the potion keeps her focused enough to know that what she's seeing can't be real, especially when the spirit walks through that door.
It's roughly her own height, and stands on two legs, with two tiny arms, a long tail, and a toothy head. Picture a human-sized Tyrannosaurus rex, and then picture (instead of dinosaur skin) that it seems to be composed of overlapping, twisted small humanoid bodies, with more lumped over its face as a sort of mask.
It lunges, and she fires. Each shot, in those few seconds, knocks one of the bodies off; they fall limply to the snow, revealing another layer of limbs and heads just below. It's more than she can fight on her own, and an attempted use of Flashback only seems to provoke a shocked expression on one of the small human-ish parts of its torso.
Others notice and try to come to her help (she even sees a green-eyed spirit turn and stare in her direction before galloping toward her) but none are quick enough to save her life as it grapples her and pries those tiny hands on tiny arms into her abdomen. She fires again and again, dropping parts of its head and chest to the snow as it tears through flesh and intestines and throws them carelessly aside.
The green-eyed spirit bowls into it and knocks it off of her, but it's too late - that flash of green eyes is the last thing she sees before she succumbs to her injuries. But her lantern is unharmed - so as long as someone manages to survive, as long as that World Eater doesn't succeed in its single-minded goal, she'll be back eventually.
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