It seemed like both moments and days since she'd turned away to ward the demons away from the pair on the ground. The air was full of sound and fury, and her muscles were taught and ready.

And then the rift pulsed, and lances of light came from the rifters shards--or from the rift, she couldn't tell--and then Sina screames behind her, high and thin, and the shockwave of force from the rift sends her oilcloak billowing and snapping behind her.

The rift is still there.

And Sina... A scream was good, yes? It meant she could breathe, right? Nari turns around, eyes searching, widening to see the stillness. She looked at the healer, and her eyes were like a child's.

"--Adelaide?"