text: Sister Mariam cried at her feet, but Rochelle ignored the woman. She had to keep everyone protected. Juanita had made up for her mistake, but now it was more important than ever that she didn't make a single misstep.
  
  Mindy charges at the Nephilim's foot. It lifts it up. She moves to dodge, but trips over a dead Lemure corpse, falling on her face. Before she can stand up, the foot crushes her.
  
  Rochelle's hand shot out and —
  
  Juanita wasn't beside her.
  
  "Don't charge, Mindy!" she shouted, screaming as loud as she could. "Don't!"
  
  The battle was too loud. Mindy was too far away. The cop stumbled and fell. The shadow of the giant's foot covered her. Mindy struggled to her rise. Rochelle watched in horror as the Nephilim slammed its foot down.
  
  "No," she wailed. I failed again.
  
  Grief dragged at Rochelle's thoughts, weighing her down with despair. She struggled to peer into the future. What was the point? She couldn't warn anyone without Juanita's empathy, and Juanita was trapped in the middle of a rage of Lemures.
  
  "I'm always getting people hurt," she wailed. Dark, despairing thoughts attacked her: I killed Bobby, I almost killed Reggie. I saved Hikaru but let Cynthia get cut down. I couldn't save Mindy's life.
  
  "I'm worthless."
  
  "No you're not!" Sister Mariam rose up, grasping Rochelle's arms. "You are not worthless."
  
  "But I failed..."
  
  "So what? You think you're the only person that's failed? They need your help. More of them will die, and then you will have really failed them!"
  
  Rochelle flinched. "How?"
  
  "I don't know. Only you know what you can do."
  
  How can I help them?
  
  I read about the Nephilim in the Handbuch der Dämonen und der Engel.
  
  She blinked, and recalled what she had read what felt like a lifetime ago. Nephilim are one of the vilest homunculi a Demon can summon. It is animated from the corpses of hundreds of Lemures, often casually sent to their deaths to provide the components to create these abominations. They are most often conjured at twilight when death and change occur, but a powerful Demon can summon them at other times. The corpses are animated around a skeleton of dark energy. To defeat a Nephilim, one must apply a great deal of force to bypass the corpses that make up its flesh and damage the skeletal-like structure of energy binding the abomination together.
  
  "Bypass the corpses..."
  
  Rochelle dashed out, followed by Cassie, her protector.