<div class="floatright">(https://mfiles.alphacoders.com/402/402340.jpg)</div>Like she was hyperventilating, Lesniya drew in great gulps of air as she watched Soph’s form run across the mucky-bottomed rat range. The rats were closing in – not particularly fast – but they were there. If she didn’t act accordingly, her friend was sure to suffer more than just a twisted ankle like last time. She shook her hands out at her side, nervously. Not that it would do any good. Whipping your hands back and forth like you were trying to get sticky bun batter off the pads of your fingers before mom saw did nothing to warm up spells for a would-be low-level sorceress.<br/>It sure felt good though.<br/><br/>“C’mon…c’mon… closer…”<br/><br/>She murmured, her head whipping back a minute to glance over her shoulder. Cerias was watching. That fact only made the energy churn harder in her stomach. Control was not something people in her family had been known for. But it was necessary in this moment.<br/><br/>With one more deep breath, Les pulled from that resource within. She took twin scoops, concentrated them in her hands and when the aim was right - sent twin blasts towards the rats following her friend. A few moments later, the black-haired Evenember blew their heads off.<br/><br/>Lesniya had never been so relieved to see lifeless bodies.<br/><br/>Except that feeling was incredibly short lived. More of the bigger beasts stomped out of the cave and began hefting their weight the way of the girls. Soph’s concerned question reached Lesniya’s ears and she shook her head hard. “They’re too…. I got an idea!! Just keep moving!!” She said, crouching to the ground.<br/><br/>Spreading her hands, Lesniya frowned hard as she placed them on top of the muck at her feet. “ew ew eww ewwww….” The wet, smelly muck made a disgusting squelch as it grew up through her fingers. Digging into that well of mana and power again, Lesniya’s eyes practically glowed as she let it flow from her center, down her arms, and along the ground, covering it in crackling fog and freezing the wet muck and mire that extended outwards from her, all the way to where the lumbering rat beasts were now gaining speed. The ice crackled beneath them, buckling under their weight. The sharp shards pierced some of their meaty flesh, but Lesniya kept PUSHING. Til the ice built and strengthened… and became a sheet over the ground, making it impossible for the rats to gain any purchase with their pudgy claws.<br/><br/>The breath she blew out was a mist as Lesniya pulled back, dropping to her knees and working hard to catch her breath. “That should… slow them down… heads… aim for the heads…” She huffed out, her curvy ass plopping onto her boots as she leaned back and drew in another breath. A satisfied grin though curled up on her face. It felt almost too good to use those powers she’d known were down deep. Addictingly satisfying. “Get ‘em Soph!” She encouraged, trying to climb to her feet now, cussing quietly as the ground kept her from staying balanced enough to do so.<br/><br/>