February 7th 2021 9:36 PM – February12th, 2021 8:17 AM

Fucking demons, Ailith thought to herself as she scrambled up the walls of the building next to her. The monstrosity they were currently engaged with followed her movements, massive head swiveling towards her. Ailith took the opportunity to strike two quick blows to it’s neck and jaw. An arrow whistled past, sinking into the creatures shoulder as it let out a bellow.

Ailith’s ears rung with the sound and she shook her head to clear it, eyes squeezed shut as she found her bearings. Opening her eyes, Ailith sawa that the monster’s attention was no longer on her. Instead, it’s yellow eyes were fixed on where Feyra stood at the end of the alley, bow raised and ready to fire again. Ailith could hear the snarls in the creature’s throat as it launched itself towards Feyra with inhuman speed.

Move! Ailith screamed in her head, willing Feyra to duck into an alleyway, but she held her ground and loosed another arrow the charging beast’s chest. Unleashing another bellow, it lowered it’s head, horns aimed at Feyra. Ailith could only watch in horror as the horns caught Feyra and flung her down the alley, body hitting the ground limply and rolling to a stop.

Get up. Get up! Ailith watched, waiting for Feyra to rise to her feet, but she stayed terrifyingly still. Aillith burst into action, sprinting and jumping across rooftops, leaping and rolling down past the creature into the alleyway. She practically threw herself at Feyra, knees quickly becoming wet with blood. Ailith’s vision was filled with the colour red – Feyra’s hair in a tangle across her face, the gaping wounds in her abdomen, the blood soaking the ground. There was so much blood, so much red red redredredred.

Gods, not like this. Ailith furiously dug through her bag, yanking out a healing potion with shaking fingers. Throwing the stopper away, Ailith tipped Feyra’s head back and poured the potion into her mouth, trying not to spill a single, necessary drop. The potion empty, Ailith sat back on her heels, eyes trained on Feyra’s face, waiting for her eyes to open, for a sign of green amongst all the red.

“Come on, come on!” Ailith gritted out, painfully aware of the beast snorting and pawing at the ground as it decided whether or not Ailith was a worthy target. Ailith moved to shield Feyra’s body with her own just as Feyra’s eyes flew open, tight with pain as the wound in her abdomen began to clot, skin slowly knitting itself back together at the edges. “Oh, thank the gods,” Ailith sighed. With numb hands, she gathered Feyra up and shoved her towards an alleyway, away from the monster and it’s deadly horns. Ailith would unpack the sheer terror she felt at seeing Feyra still and broken later, right now she was only focused on killing the snarling creature in front of her.