((yay! Just got around to replying, myself))<br/><br/>Aki crouched behind her makeshift shelter, cringing. Just her damned luck, winding up in a dimension with huge demonic creatures. Risking a peek, she saw the imposing woman in armor swinging a sword expertly at her opponents. “Holy shit,” she muttered. Well, strong and skilled though the woman might be, she couldn’t keep this up if the portal didn’t close and keep spitting out demons.<span style="font-style: italic">Get your ass out of there and help, dammit!</span>With that mental self-reproach, Akira took a deep breath and ran out of her hiding place, barely managing to duck out of the way of falling debris caused by a demon getting thrown backward from the armored woman’s assault.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, Aki had attracted the attention of another demon, thankfully smaller but no less menacing-looking. Fumbling with her belt, she unsheathed a small knife and gripped it firmly. It wouldn’t have been able to damage the huge demon earlier, but this one might be more manageable. She had been training her powers with this knife and was the only piece of metal she was confident she could wield expertly with her psyche. “Catch!” she yelled, throwing the knife at the advancing demon, her aim guided by a mental command. The knife hit the demon in the eye, making it shriek and utter gibberish. Before it could dislodge it himself, the knife darted out of the socket and plunged again, this time into its other eye.<br/><br/>She hadn’t harmed an actual living thing with her ability until today. Shaken, she held out her hand and the knife flew swiftly back to her, hilt-first. The other demons were still heading towards the armored woman, but Aki focused, instead, on the second figure standing by the portal machine or whatever that was. “Hey!” she yelled, her hands up after sheathing the knife, her pant leg bloody from where she had wiped it clean, “hey! You trying to shut that down? I have an idea.” No time to catch her breath. “Look. Uh. Might be faster if we overload the portal by opening another beside it. I could try one on my own, but if I’m right and you’re a Paladin too, you can open another with me and cancel it out, make it collapse.”