The battle continued to rage on as much as the winds. Adeline's blade cleaved through the endless amounts of icy constructs, almost seeming to multiply every time her sword cut one of their number down. Tiresias was still absorbing the air around Adeline, using this to actually store power rather than bring comfort. However, the battle's length wore down on Adeline's endurance, the frigid blades piercing her defense and grazing across her skin. The sounds started to become muddled together as more and more enemies came to face the hunters; discerning the location of her foes was a difficult task, which caused her evasion to the onslaught becoming delayed. Scarlet snow kicked up into the air along with the shattered fragments of ice, the stark white landscape quickly being painted with splatters of crimson. The grim scene mattered not to the sightless maiden, all that mattered were the sounds of the scrunched snow and the scraping of the golem's joints as they moved to strike.<br/><br/>It was then that Adeline heard the familiar noises of shattering glass, but it was not followed by a shrill noise from the sonic hunter. The origin of the strike was discerned by the voice that followed it; Sam's reassuring statement and presence calmed the nerves of the woman clutching both her steel and her scars. The blade whirred as she flourished it in her hands, soon dismembering and disarming the creature charging at her. It was difficult to keep up the fight, but she remained determined to live through this.<br/><br/>Soon, she heard a loud clamoring near the red headed bruiser's location, a chorus of slashes and strikes followed suite. "Sam!" Adeline cried, cleaving through a marionette as it's blade dug into her right shoulder. She grimaced from the immense pain, but bared her fangs and continued to charge toward her minuscule companion.<span style="font-style: italic">Don't worry Red, I got thisss!</span>Tiresias exclaimed, materializing on Adeline's shoulder as he usually does. The reptile seemed to expand, and soon, the sphere of stagnant wind became a brief, whirling gale of great force as he exhaled. The huge cluster of marionettes was pushed aside, some losing their appendages from the sheer force of the blow. Adeline stabbed her sword into the ground for a moment, propping herself up as she panted and mentally thanked her reptilian companion once again. Hearing the monsters twitch once more, she drew her sword out of the ground and ambled over to Sam, assuming a defensive stance.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Don't worry, you guys got this! These ssssnowballs are nothing!</span>the lizard cheered.<br/><br/>"Yeah..." the tattered woman said weakly, still trying to catch her breath. "We just have to keep on fighting. There's no other way."