(( I concur. : / Glad you're back. ))<br/>As the next bullet hit she felt it tear through her defenses. Her eyes widened as it shredded the muscle on her arm, thrown up in an instinctive block once the grenade went off. As the water vapor hit the bullet she let out a yelp, tearing away from the battle and the pain.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">Pain...</span><br/>It was an old acquaintance, and she felt her defenses leap into action at the unexpected injury. Her skin rippled, and she froze in place for a few seconds. She never remembered these lapses, they kept her suspended for only a few seconds, body completely immobile as the nerves realigned to cope with the pain, limbs, muscles, and skin hardened and became her impenetrable armor.<br/>When she came too, she found her back to the battle, and whirled around in a fury.<br/>It had been a long time since she'd fled battle, by impulse or otherwise. She lifted her arm to swing at the nearest human, and froze - this time out of shock - as her blade clattered to the floor.<br/>Her left arm was done.<br/>First the shoulder, and now the arm itself. The muscles were in disarray, and due to the bullet, much too stiff to realign manually.<br/>A cramp hit her arm, the muscles struggling in vain to set, torn between defense and ability to heal.<br/>She stared at the crater of flesh in her upper arm, and winced as more jolts of muscles spasm shook her.<br/>She turned to the culprit, and saw him throw a grenade with the intent of separating the carriages.<br/>She left her Scimitar behind, running with her remaining blade,desperate to keep at it.<br/>Her arm had curled into her side, an immobile limb of pain. Pain she pushed away and drew her fury from.<br/>She leaped over to the next carriage, feeling the air twitch as the grenade exploded.<br/>Heat washed over her, as well as shrapnel. She'd never been that close to the blast before, and the thousands of pinpricks of needles in her back cause her to halt once more.<br/>Her ears rang, louder than ever, and she hissed, shaking her head. The sounds around her were muffled, and she bared her teeth, cutting down any in her way with her remaining blade.