With each pulse of her shields, Ayesha’s body ached more, forcing her to feel her muscles contract and twist threateningly as if they were going to cramp up on her. The last time she underwent this much strain was when she was fighting her brother for the title of high guard. She was only twelve at the time and he at a more mature age of sixteen. He was much stronger, but her stubbornness won over her. Ayesha could not lose against him, and fought till the end when she broke through his shields. She was the only one who was able to find a way to break through, and still no one had found out how. Now as she thrust out her shields to protect them all, Ayesha held onto that memory to keep moving forward through the swarming crowd.<br/><br/>The screeches of the reptilian men hurt her ears, but not as much as the grinding of rock against rock as the Durfle beast rolled in their direction. Panic and haste surged through her weary limbs, pushing her more towards the exit. When the three of them entered the small archway, another shield rebounded against her own, creating a surge of sparks come between them.  “They had put up other shields to prevent anyone to escape!” she shouted above the deafening sound within the tunnels. “Cover my back as I work this out…”she breaks the spell of the shields about them as she moved close to the foreign shield, blocking their way. As soon as she moved closer to the invisible shield, her body was being pushed back in resistance. The thing about shields was that, there were so many different variations of them that no one knew exactly how they all worked. Magic could be used to overcome the spell that was casted, or physical force.<br/><br/>Ayesha glanced back at the other two as they fought off the lizardmen in the tunnel. From what it would seem, their enemy too wanted to use the same exit as themselves. Turning around to have her focus upon the situation at hand, she uses her weight against the force field to get close enough to feel the sparks of the magic whip out to her skin.  Hands shaking from the push of her endurance, she pushed them upward to press her fingertips together and press them against the shield before her. Small bolts shot up along her arm as to push her back from the shields but she pressed her fingers closed against the invisible wall allowing a flash of light succumb her. Chanting beneath her breath, Ayesha uses a surge of her own shields to rip open a hole about her fingertips. Forced open the shield vibrates more about her fingers as she stood there, pulling it apart with all of her might, feeling the electricity burn her hands slightly.<br/><br/>Body shaking, and coiling from tension, she used her foot to rip  the shield for a larger opening for the rest of her companions.” GO GO GO!!! I CAN’T HOLD IT MUCH LONGER!” She shouted out hoarsely as she  struggled to keep the tear open. The rest of them didn’t stall much as they jumped through the opening, and as  for herself, she dived through before the tear crashed closed with a flash, blinding the lizard men as the Durfle beast ram through the tunnel they were in. Laying on her back, Ayesha glanced back at the once screaming tunnel filled with the lizard men, but now a place of death. Screams and bone shattering sounds reached her ears, only to have brought on the memories of her homeland. Without much of her knowing, she was breathing in heavy pants, and her form shook from the rush of adrenaline she had underwent those few moments ago.Unable to look back to the gore of the dead, she looked up to her companions, who like herself were taken aback from getting out of the tunnel in time. Her hands shook uncontrollably as she grasped onto the walls, and pushed herself up to her feet.<br/><br/>Still weak from using the majority of her energy, her knees gave out beneath her, but before meeting the ground, she grabbed hold of a ledge along the wall. Breathing heavily, she paled slightly but held firm. “ W-we need to keep moving, because that shield could have alerted more to come after us…”she mentions breathlessly as she braced herself against the wall, moving to start walking up through the tunnel towards the exit. Her limbs felt heavy and feeble from over using them, but the only thing that kept her from giving up was the thought of finding their freedom and earning a well nights rest.<br/>