Fred does his best to position himself so that he can get some leverage against the large rocks blocking the path, but he can't figure out how to get his new body into a useful position.
"It's no good," he reports after straining against the rock for a few minutes. "If we were out in the clear..." "So what do we do now?" Astra wonders aloud, trying to recall if they had passed anything that might be turned into a makeshift lever. "Maybe Velus can hear us if we-" But Fred wasn't listening. "I might be able to blast it with lightning," he rumbles quietly. Oh dear sweet goddess, Astra curses silently as she fumbles backwards in the dark to hopefully get out of range of any shrapnel. She braces herself for the explosion of thunder as well, but as the seconds slowly tick by and the initial adrenaline fades she realizes that the only sound is a sort of snuffling coming from the head end of the dragon. "Is everything all right?" "Yes. I'm new at this. Just give me a moment," Fred says curtly. "We could always try-" But just then the cave lights up to a sudden roar of thunder and shattered rock blasting against rock and dragon scales. Astra shields her face with her arms to try to protect herself from the ricochet. "There!" Fred shouts triumphantly, immensely pleased that he used his lightning deliberately. "Er..." "What now?"
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