by Endesu » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:25 pm
The woman swiftly hurried after, deciding to go with what the moogle had suggested. It felt right, somehow... perhaps this was some of Astrynax's thought process leaking into her own? Whatever the case, she had made a decision, and she was sticking to it.
As the two went on, they would find themselves weaving through crowds of folk; most civilians had either taken refuge in their homes or in a safer spot. Guards were about and busy pressing back the Shadows, who seemed to continue coming. Unusually, Shadows moved about Kumo and the woman as well, but ultimately left them alone. Fortunate, yes, but quite possibly suspicious.
The two would finally arrive at the building in question; it appeared to be an older structure of some sort. One could almost vaguely read the word 'Library' on the front of the building, amidst the flames that had started. Several guards were about, but their efforts, involving the manual use of water, seemed to be having curiously little effect.
The woman frowned for a moment, but set herself in a position and readied to attack <s>the darkness</s> the flames that consumed the apparent library. Several guard mages had arrived on the spot, as well, and were similarly preparing to assault the flames.
The resulting magical attack (from the woman) would remind Kumo quite a bit of Astrynax; the woman took a similar stance, held out her hands in a similar way, and cast a spell much as the grumpy mage would've. This didn't matter at the moment, though; what mattered was that the woman had attacked the fire and indeed the entire building with an ice spell. The other mages followed suit with a water or ice spell, seeking to also kill the fire before it spread.
This effort quickly succeeded; the fires died down in a matter of moments. The woman seemed unsteady, and she appeared to be idly fingering her potions. Perhaps she wasn't used to casting spells like this? Whatever the case, Kumo would still recall that people may potentially be inside this building... potentially hurt people.
***
The reaper chuckled slightly. "Is that so? Very well. I see that you are able to put worrying about the woman aside, as well. I suppose you have everything under control despite the untimely death factor, then?"
Cackling just a bit, the reaper turned back and swiftly headed for Doma, cutting his descent short and arriving just around a few recently downed guards. Both had been rather heavily assaulted and torn at by a possible horde of Shadows, and little could really be done for them at this point.
As Greg arrived at the scene, he would find the Reaper calmly chatting with the two former Guards, who appeared to be fairly unhappy about the situation...
The reaper looked back at Greg as he arrived. "Is this what you wanted, then?"