THE RIVER

[sparednothing]

[YOU CHOSE THE RIVER ROUTE Too bad, Mama decides to give this group chase. There's a cave up ahead, a small waterfall partially concealing the entrance, but it should provide safe cover, if you can make it]

[[ooc: The chase | The cave | Day three OOC post | Plot Hub]]

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[deltacain]

[And Bourne has to abandon his spot before he gets stomped into paste. Not how he wants to go out.

He circles around and back to Dairine.]

Think he has a grudge?

[schrodingersghost]

[Unlike the other two Danny flies forward and brings up his hands, ready to bring up a shield. Dairine might have one up, but he didn't know how well it would hold.]

[wizard_redfive]

[Rude. It can hold back a t-rex just fine. Ignoring Danny for the moment, she spares a glance towards Bourne.]

Not sure. I don't know him. [Joshua, that is.]

[heloise]

[ Well now, things are looking pretty good --unless those people start mobbing Joshua for doing his job trolling the T-Rex hey. She keeps hiding but she might wave if anyone catches her eye. ]

[ofhope]

[ Hey now girl, Joshua was luring the T-Rex clear away from the cave before you directed her attention back that way. Not his fault you insisted on being closer to the fight!

But he'll still take a note and end it fast, honestly bearing no grudge against the poor stupid beast. They fought, he took her eye and frankly she's left him a little worse for wear, but now she's the one outmatched, and that probably becomes clear the moment the violet-hued blast encompasses the behemoth's entirety. The force of it will definitely send up a spray of water and dirt (well, mud), but once that settles the scene is completely still. The T-Rex that was flailing and roaring around only moments ago stands poised perfectly still in the center of the river, every inch of it greyed and hard as if it were nothing more than a statue. At such a precarious position, she ought to fall over, but there's no movement at all, and there never will be.

Joshua, meanwhile, will have landed on the side of the river close to the cave, wings gone but horns still visible, just staring up at her.

At least nobody will have to worry about scavengers. ]

[heloise]

[ It's been a long time since that violet light frightened her. Now it only feels nostalgic, with only the memory of fear but nothing besides.

Lucrezia interrupts the silence that comes after with the sound of her ruffling skirt and the patter of soft shoes against the wet rocks as she steps out of the cave toward him. Joshua still seems taken by his own handiwork, but no matter, she can still wrap her arms loosely about his waist and join him in paying the dragon its due respect.

A worthy enemy is hard to find. ]

[wizard_redfive]

[The violet light comes as a surprise, having not seen it before, and Dairine quickly grabs Danny before pushing the group back a few feet. Once the dust settles, she sees the giant dinosaur frozen in place as though stone. Dairine is not sure if the T-Rex is dead or worse, but she can tell entropy has struck again.

Which Dairine guesses means she failed another life, even if it was one that she wasn't very fond of. And she didn't even get the catharsis of pounding it. Dairine's mind is a jumble of feelings: anger, disappointment, guilt, sorrow, self-doubt. Why is she so conflicted? It should have died... or shouldn't it have? Who is she to say how it should live on its own grounds? The Powers discouraged making such assumptions... or valuing one life over another. So, somewhat bitterly, she addresses Joshua.]

You didn't have to do that. We could have handled it.

[ofhope]

[ Joshua looks past Lucrezia over to the girl who's talking. She had been in the trailer, hadn't she? Well, it isn't as if he expected anyone to be grateful to him. They never were. ]

It was our fight. Had nothing to do with you by now.

[wizard_redfive]

[To be fair, she wouldn't have been very grateful to anyone else either, so at least there's that. She don't need no protecting.]

You still didn't have to kill her!

[ofhope]

I didn't kill her. I Stopped her.

[ Joshua hadn't even known it was female, but he wasn't exactly looking for that while running for his life all night in the dark. ]

And if she wasn't taken out of the picture, she just would have kept trying to kill us, and nobody would have been able to sleep tonight.

[wizard_redfive]

We're big boys and girls. I'm sure we could have managed. [Or rather, she could think of a billion other ways to take an angry dinosaur out of the picture now that her powers are back. Some might require a year of her life as payment, but at this point it already feels like she's lost one.

She gazes up at the T-Rex, her anger simmering down.]

Is it permanent?

[heloise]

[ Lucrezia is quite content just to watch the behemoth balancing precariously yet unmoving, even if its expression is lively enough that it seems to shiver and sway. But then the woman chastising Joshua for essentially saving them is starting to grate on her nerves. Enough's enough.

She may still be smiling, but her expression is cold, angry. How dare she? ]

There is another for you to manage if you are so keen.