[Delight suffuses, charges every fiber of him. It’s so bright and fills him so completely, he doesn’t even have space to feel afraid as sound shifts—as the ground shifts—as the battle’s second act rises under Sentinel Scuti’s feet.]
Scuti, watch out!
[Without a thought, he sends the wind that caught him so lovingly all to Scuti’s defense, wrapping her in a sphere of whirling air that deflects the massive jet of water that punches through the earth beneath her, air that cradles her even as the force of the eruption sends her—and chunks of street and stone—flying. She escapes it all unscathed.
Perseus isn’t so lucky. The blast catches him, unarmed and functionally naked, and throws him into the side of a construction vehicle.]
Ugh…!
[His body drops into a rising stream of water, which then continues to rise, shifting and forming a thick coil of tail. The goat half of the main kaiju raises itself on its two legs and bleats; the pillar of water that makes up its back half solidifies into a finned, serpentine tail twisted around Sentinel Perseus’s dangling form, like a baby with a rattle.]
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Scuti, watch out!
[Without a thought, he sends the wind that caught him so lovingly all to Scuti’s defense, wrapping her in a sphere of whirling air that deflects the massive jet of water that punches through the earth beneath her, air that cradles her even as the force of the eruption sends her—and chunks of street and stone—flying. She escapes it all unscathed.
Perseus isn’t so lucky. The blast catches him, unarmed and functionally naked, and throws him into the side of a construction vehicle.]
Ugh…!
[His body drops into a rising stream of water, which then continues to rise, shifting and forming a thick coil of tail. The goat half of the main kaiju raises itself on its two legs and bleats; the pillar of water that makes up its back half solidifies into a finned, serpentine tail twisted around Sentinel Perseus’s dangling form, like a baby with a rattle.]