<strong>Jeong Soo-Jin</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Inside the school<br/><strong>Tag</strong>: No one<br/>Fight roll: 26 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=49835)<br/><hr/><br/>Rising back to her feet after having deflected the goblin's attack, Jin could see Al wrestling with it, but their struggle didn't leave much of an opening for her to intervene. Then something else was happening, a woman slowly fading into existence - kind of like the shield had, but not really. It was the mist-woman-silhouette-thing that they'd seen outside, Jin recognized her even though now she seemed very much more real, though an aura of etherealness certainly still surrounded her.<br/><br/>During the struggle, Jin had somehow ended up in a classroom, she wasn't sure which, and now it was filling up with mist, making it impossible to tell. As she tried to find the door, instead she saw some sort of portal opening nearby as a completely alien and intimidating being stepped into their world from what could only be described as another dimension. It looked hostile and dangerous and impossible, but then again none of this was possible.<br/><br/>Maybe it was just a dream within a dream or something like that, but Jin didn't want to test it by getting herself killed and then running the risk of being wrong. The alien creature got closer, jumping onto a desk like a predator before swiping at her with its long arm and razor sharp talon-like claws. The shield had served her well thus far, so she raised it again to protect herself, but this new threat was stronger than the goblin several times over.<br/><br/>It seemed to hardly be putting any effort behind its swipe and still the impact rattled Jin's entire arm painfully as she stumbled back and tripped over a chair, falling hard on her side. Just as suddenly as she'd found her courage earlier, a potent rush of fear and hopelessness overtook her now in the face of this new danger. She tried to run away, but her shield had gone from weightless to heavy, too heavy for her to even raise.  Whimpering in terror, she tugged at the leather straps futilely, too panicked to get them loose, but finally the idea of<em>willing</em>them off came to her and it worked.<br/><br/>Free from her burden, Jin glanced back nervously at the creature before crawling away from it hastily, praying to a god that she decided she didn't believe in that she could find the door through the mist and escape.