Lyla was there, lying on a slab of rock, finishing tying a tourniquet on her leg. "About time someone showed up..."
Thaidakar looked back at the hole as it was blocked (sorry for that one, I kinda need him to get away for plot reasons)
"No one understands me. They never did."
Rage, anger, fear flew through him one at a time. A piece of him begged him to stop and breathe, but the rest of him wanted freedom, wanted to be free form the chains and bounds that they'd set in place, to be free from caring.
To be free from guilt, for once. Oh to be free form guilt...
His surroundings were a stark landscape with a pale sky. And nearby was a tall stone structure with an open stairwell in the center.
Thaidakar swore loudly. "Of all the..." he punched the stone, cracking it down the middle. The red energy in his mind singed his awareness, representing the Darkness nearby. Yet he ignored it for now. He needed to quiet the sounds.. needed to find quiet somewhere. Somehow.
The wall shuddered, rippling with the magical energy from around it. Reality was being altered far too much nearby from Elan and Thaidakar for the regular rules to apply anymore. What had once been a wall was now a gateway to... a library with tapestries and suits of armor between bookshelves? And what was that piece of slag on the ground?
The city shifted as it began to melt, the manmade gravity beginning to shatter, sending all into disarray. Quakes shuddered throug hthe city as streets were torn apart, revealing the layers and layers of the city beneath. Floods of people rushed to the docks, hoping to escape, yet found most of the ships gone or getting destroyed by Elan. Screams filtered through the sounds of buildings crumbling and turning to slag.
By the remains of the spire in the center of the city, Lyla grunted, biting off the pain from her leg and from what Elan was doing. "Ya know, when I agreed--" she winced, "to bring you all here.. I didn't think... I didn't think it would mean my home town turning to nothingness... A lot of thanks I get..." She turned to Pic, "You, get the juice box out of my left pocket. Open it and hand it to me."
However, as Lyla was commanding Pic to get her sacred juice boxes, the dragons, those rulers of the city and defenders of the peace, turned to see their peace in pieces. In roars of anger, the narrowed their senses down on the source and dove for Elan, flames building in their magic, claws bared.
And, all the while, something moved across the ground, searching. A bit of Thaidakar's red power crackled where it had destroyed a building and the pattern stopped by it and one word sighed from it wearily, "Lies..."