When a battle gets going time distorts and if you are lucky enough to survive the memorable moments eventually settle into something resembling order.
If you are really lucky and some friends survive too, you can share stories and maybe piece together a bigger picture.
In doing that you often find that skirmishes you thought took hours were over in a span of minutes and a series of clashes that flew by you in a blur took most of a night.
Ace has been fighting for what feels like half an hour, maybe an hour, but honestly it could be minutes or days. He feels disconnected, almost dissociated and he worries for a moment that he is slipping back into the deep umbra, back to the celestial war after a far too brief reprieve.
Just as the feeling that he is slipping away becomes overwhelming he is drawn back by a familiar figure in the haze in front of him. The Pumonca in war-form smells familiar too but the scent and the image don't match up and as he draws near the figure isn't quite right in either size or markings to be who he first thought.
Dealing with the moment of cognitive dissonance is enough to focus him and draw him the rest of the way back to the present.
That is definitely Elle sneaking up on nightrenders and rescuing trapped villagers. When she said she was in Isaac's pack he thought she was another wolf he'd adopted not his kid sister or something.
He waited until her current ambush was accomplished and loped up to join her for the next.
"Said I'd get your back. Who's day are we ruining next?"
II (cw: dissociation)
If you are really lucky and some friends survive too, you can share stories and maybe piece together a bigger picture.
In doing that you often find that skirmishes you thought took hours were over in a span of minutes and a series of clashes that flew by you in a blur took most of a night.
Ace has been fighting for what feels like half an hour, maybe an hour, but honestly it could be minutes or days. He feels disconnected, almost dissociated and he worries for a moment that he is slipping back into the deep umbra, back to the celestial war after a far too brief reprieve.
Just as the feeling that he is slipping away becomes overwhelming he is drawn back by a familiar figure in the haze in front of him. The Pumonca in war-form smells familiar too but the scent and the image don't match up and as he draws near the figure isn't quite right in either size or markings to be who he first thought.
Dealing with the moment of cognitive dissonance is enough to focus him and draw him the rest of the way back to the present.
That is definitely Elle sneaking up on nightrenders and rescuing trapped villagers. When she said she was in Isaac's pack he thought she was another wolf he'd adopted not his kid sister or something.
He waited until her current ambush was accomplished and loped up to join her for the next.
"Said I'd get your back. Who's day are we ruining next?"