The Cliché Showdown?

Make them come to him! It’ll cost him much in resources and stamina, but better that than explain to his demonic handler what had happened….

So off to his secret lair in the town of Wallants to cast this summoning spell (best place to buy those hard to find spell components) and now, outside in the light of the full moon, he waits with his cronies.

And wonder of wonders . . . he’s latched onto one of the Dancers! He senses it coming now…

Here comes one of the Dancers now, over the city walls of Wallants! Looks to be the quicksilver one, by the reflections of moonlight off the skin . . .

And isn’t that those the intruders who’d caused Stryke so much grief in hot pursuit?

Joan 2

"At least Fertal had been able to slow him down long enough so we could mount a pursuit," I mutter to myself as we fly after the insanely laughing ex-Dancer.

I'd only begun to get settled down to bed and now I'm rushing off with everyone else. Don't EVEN want to know what I look like, hair all over the place... Then again, why the Hell am I worrying about vanity when a fellow sibling's very life is in danger...

Joan, just concentrate on priorities and worry about appearance later. I mean really!...

...

We must be a sight, flying almost blindly over the trees to chase down someone who seems to have lost his mind… We’re almost upon him and…

. . .

"Hey, tell me that’s not Wallants ahead?" I blink, pointing.

1. We’d gone off blindly in pursuit . . .

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