Essentia Animus

77-Unattainable Serenity

Vwyx grabbed the passing Sryine with her only hand, bringing her aboard the makeshift raft in the wild rapids of the water currents. Sryine was actually unconscious at the time, having passed out for a moment once she made contact with the water.

Sryine sputtered awake, feeling absolutely miserable. That was absolutely the worst opportunity to simply pass out, what if Riyxia.. where was she anyway? Sryine was quick to discover that being as dizzy as she was, the spinning craft was simply making things worse for her, she couldn't concentrate at all. Vwyx really wasn't feeling any better, the nausea climbing as the ride progressed. They approached a platform that was reasonably close to the water level, Vwyx picking up Sryine with her single available arm in order to ensure they both made it. The fact that it was their healer that was attacking them so relentlessly was becoming a very serious issue, they were both in some serious need of medical care, and there was no chance of it even happening. Sryine in the meanwhile was realizing something else, she might have been putting some attempts into controlling water in what seemed like the same style as every other scenario, but it wasn't the same. As the wooden raft drifted off, it's small design doing its best to hold firm against the raging currents, Sryine recalled the one piece she had been missing, wood elemental. This place needed more wood for her to work with. Vwyx's health concerns for herself were also mediated a bit when she noticed an ersatz float by. Of course, all the injury suffered by ersatz would have left an impact on Riyxia, they weren't the only ones injured fighting their healer. This entire feeling was still harsh for Vwyx, being the one with the constant responsibility to return repairs for Riyxia, as her own personal healer. She wondered just how many of the ersatz lost here might possibly be salvageable too. In all accounts though, that's about the only repairs they needed to worry about, Riyxia herself wasn't even bleeding much at this point, her personal injuries were rather light.

Sryine followed Vwyx's gaze in an initial concern, worried if the ersatz had actually moved in that time and was preparing to attack them. Instead, no, it really was just floating by, much like the raft had. Actually.. a lot like the raft... Of course, all the discarded ersatz around the place, now devoid of Riyxia's flame, were effectively a collection of life-like elements much like a regular person. However, they were much more elemental in nature.. such as physically being of a very wood-element nature. By discarding control over so many ersatz, there was thus an assorted collection of wood elements all over the place. Even so, this was only a start, she needed to make a forest of her own within this metal garden, to have a forest that was simply more than just trees. To that end, she would need Vwyx's help.. the two of them would actually have to put some serious teamwork into a lot else. Throwing water and frost alone wasn't enough, they needed to really bring the ice down on Riyxia. In tandem, the combination of both elements, committing both together in the goal of sapping Riyxia's ability.. until she stopped trying to kill them. Sure, that wouldn't solve their problems, there would be a lot else involved, but if Riyxia stopped trying to kill them, then maybe they would have the opportunity to actually figure out everything else. At the very least, maybe she would have the chance to recover her own balance.. the world no longer spinning so much in the process.

"Vwyx, can you give this place a lot more wood? If there was more wood to work with, I would be able to turn the tides of things and bring water around to our side. With that behind us, we could weather your frosting before us with the water to wither her whether she would try to weather your contribution or mine. After that she maybe might.. after.. now..." "Okay, I get it, I think. Just shut up, you're not the only one feeling dizzy right now, your crazy is just making things worse." Sryine stopped trying to figure out where she was going with her statement to Vwyx, really having gotten lost in the principle of the idea. It was like her head was going in circles.. actually, that wasn't even inaccurate, that's exactly what being dizzy implied. Vwyx had taken into honest account that even without being vocal, that swirl of misshapen logic was exactly how overwhelmed Sryine's mind was at this point, they both needed a bit more clarity and direction. Seeing things, even in the literal sense, was challenging for her.. this magnification of her sight giving her eyes almost an elf-like potential. Wait, while adjusting to such could be difficult, that could still present her with some viable benefits. Living so much around elves, she was well aware of how the physical differences between both affected their potentials. Working with instruments since, she had been faced with recognizing how an elf's improved senses provided them with a much more powerful sense of focus. To that end, she needed to focus upon her gift, to make use of this keen depth of vision that was applied to it. She swept around carefully, intent not on the ground but on all of the broken shards of metal and stone scattered around. She was a craftswoman, she needed to polish her art to a perfection, to get everything. Her body flared as the flame supplemented into her gift, adding extra might into its deliverance. She had never crafted something over such a vast area before, but Riyxia's inadvertent gift made this actually a bit easier.. surprisingly enough. Soon, the water rippled as wooden branches spiralled out from it all over the place. The water fought to sustain its intensity.. but the pattern of wood started to shift the water's flow into a constant single clockwise whirl around the room, completely uniform.