"The skeleton is the problem," Lilith called, her parasol blooming to turn aside a buzzing wing-blast that would have flung Aria from her feet. "We cannot cut through that glass. We have to get past it. The body underneath is still only a ghost."
"Then we make a gap in the glass," Rin said, and began to move.
She danced back out of the thing's reach and started to build, footwork and spinning crescents weaving faster and faster, her Cadence climbing while the others bought her the time.
Kenshin planted himself square in the mantis's path and would not be moved, swallowing blow after blow on his shield, his Last Stand making him heavier and surer with every hit.
Lily vanished and reappeared at the creature's blind angles, her Nullblades scoring the dark tattoos again and again, not cutting through but worrying at them, drawing the husk's furious attention this way and that.
