war table: one giant leap.

[propulsion]

WHO: Intrepid heroes
WHAT: Forging a path to the second Crossroads Gate, and then poking it with sticks.
WHEN: Late Drakonis
WHERE: The Crossroads
NOTES: n/a

Comments

[heorte]

No, this is not how it's meant to go. Ellis has spent years watching Wysteria and Tony and an assortment of Rifters close these tears. He knows what it looks like when it goes as its meant to, and he knows that this is not it.

And he knows that he never wants to discover what would happen if that gelatinous, bubbling matter made connection with Adrasteia. Or any member of Riftwatch, really. If she hadn't closed her fist, Ellis might have done it for her. He's never tried to break a connection between shard and rift before, but there's a first time for everything.

The impulse had carried him forward a few steps, and he's near enough now to put a palm at the center of her back.

"Let me see," is very low. Her hand is surely unharmed, but.