Thread:GalaxE/@comment-36159587-20191217183339/@comment-36159587-20200119185614

The lieutenant merely disappeared, leaving the kid wide open to the swath of flames.

Which, of course, was when Hitan reappeared again, having summoned his wings despite what horrible injuries he had obtained from merely being caught by the flames from earlier at close range. Being struck with them again at close range caused excruciating pain that he hadn't known he would be able to feel again, from his wings that had been dissected years ago and hadn't been able to feel anything from for the past six years or so, but he held on to his student, who was almost completely reactionless and numb from horror.

It seemed like an eternity until the flames finally dissipated to carve in an extended path towards Time, but they had only disappeared because the ground they had destroyed was already gone. But even in some sort of mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, Hitan still held onto the kid, his physical grip to whatever this painful reality this was to him tighter than the grip his mind had to the real world. The fall the teacher and student had to the lower floor seemed to be a long way down.

McStabberson had stopped, apparently not interested in attacking Echo.