Valeria spun once through the air, hit the stone of the island, skidded, and came up into a crouch twenty paces away. Her braids had come loose along one side. A thin line of golden blood traced down her cheek from the corner of her brow. She straightened with measured calm, her shoulders rolling as she reset her posture, and then she drew both blades of infinity again without a word.
Above, the abomination completed its spin.
It came back down toward Noah faster than it had gone up!
Its jaws didn't open this time. Its hands extended forward in front of its body, and from those hands erupted long jagged talons made of concentrated madness, THE Gamaidian given edge and purpose!
The air screamed around the talons as they descended, Infinity twisting into configurations that refused to resolve into any stable geometry.
Octavius launched new weavings from behind the abomination.
