After holding him down for a moment, Ayl noticed the blood pooled under Levin's wrist.<span style="font-style: italic">I didn't realize the cut was that deep,</span>he thought. Knowing the demon he was up against, cuts and blood on either combatant only made things worse for him. "Dammit!" he cursed, barely managing to move out of the way before spikes of blood shot out at him, one coming within centimeters of his face. He stumbled backwards, as he wasn't able to make a very clean escape, but quickly righted himself, gaining his balance back in moments.<br/><br/>That time was long enough for Levin to make his next move however, and Ayl backstepped his first swing, pulling his own arm around in front of him as he did so. He was well aware of the particles that were going to try and latch on to him, and using that hand, he created a veil of shadow in front of himself, sending the particles that collided with it into a sort of void. The veil was gone as quickly as it had appeared, and Ayl was about to charge in for a counter attack when Sam intervened.<span style="font-style: italic">Are you INSANE?</span>he shouted in his mind. It was exceedingly obvious this Levin character wasn't about to regain his composure, and though his intent wasn't to harm Sam, she could easily get caught in the crossfire. Because of this, he didn't act yet, waiting to see what his opponent would do.