He shook his head, both of them too committed to their current courses, and both of them knowing it. He sighed, before tapping into V'elen's power, the crystalized dragon-human hybrid form flashing into existence, but this time he didn't grow in size, instead choosing a more compact, dense form, that would allow for easier movement and dodging. He mentally twisted one top of the three singularity bombs he now carried with him out of habit everywhere, before having it move from his bag of holding into reality immediately behind Verdelet, even as he launched a series of twisting, curving balefire beams, which arced around like a massive net, trying to hold her in place even as he began advancing, magic and beyonder energies effortlessly merging with barely a thought or gesture, putting everything he had into offense. He wanted to see what she had come up with, since he had so graciously leveled the playing field for her with the beyonder samples.