He listened to her ranting, idly noting that her perceptions of energy weaves seemed to have been distorted by the surges from the unstable portal. He rolled his eyes, before flash stepping to the side at the last possible instance, still not bothering with armor, a web of hair nearly molecule thin balefire where he had been standing. It wouldn't damage her, as it was just the tracers, but it would definitely hurt when he pumped power into it. "And I am giving them ways to use their energy that hasn't been tried before. Your solution is with short term gain, but no long term benefits, as they will continued to edge you out. Ours is a gamble, risking a short term disaster against a long term solution. Of course, Verdelet never understood that, and I doubt that you, I'elen, are any different."<br/><br/>He sighed, and shook his head, not bothering to activate the energy web, a new technique that she had seen once before, but never as widely spread as it was. He turned back to her, and did a merge with V'elen, the crystals sprouting, white with black streaks, and a single glowing golden gem in the middle of what used to be his forehead, completely turning the fight over to V'elen. Large, edged wings spread out behind him, a powerful tail of razor sharp crystals curling around from behind him, and it simply stared at I'elen, done talking, now simply going to take I'elen apart, and recovery her energy. It would be very useful to Svala's wounded beyonder, and the excess could be used for experiments.