Corrine smiled at the titanic struggle between the ancient and the contemporary sciences; she had no doubt in her mind of the victor and was more than content to stand back and watch Elohim’s graceful dissection of the relic… even so she winced at the shriek from her… feeling a hateful gorge rise within her as her eyes burned against the prototype.<br/><br/>The arc around her arm flickered with a moment of intensity and it drew her eye, she regarded it with a knowing smile and softly nodded her head… she had seen the strange candle flicker of his soul at the edge of the field of destruction and had been awaiting his move.<br/><br/>“I know…” she whispered down toward the snaking soul of the ancient… “I have been waiting…”  The soul of the goddess flared as the energy surge washed through the air…Corrine didn’t move…the molecular displacement of her body was almost instantaneous as her form slipped from the realm of the substantial and became out of phase with the world around her, she threw back her head as the metal slug swiftly cleaved through her wraithlike form and drove hard into the mangled remains of the vehicle she had rested on a short while before… the resultant explosion lit up the air behind her and the inferno feathered out behind her like blazing wings that lit up her ethereal energy for a moment…<br/><br/>Her form coalesced and she shook herself free of the remains of the ionised wake of the metal slug, she took a footfall forward… wandering if he would make any further attempts to attract her attention…<br/>