He looked up at her, her gemstone cracked and flaking, seeing the terrified soul under the desperate beyonder. "A fun run Verdelet, I'elen. But you forgot something. One of my titles. Master of Portals."<br/><br/>The portal appeared beside her, the previous balefire beam erasing the rest of her torso and head as the earlier beam was released, having been trapped between two portals that faced each other, creating a never ending beam of balefire that would have likely been a paradox if anyone else found out about it. He waited a moment, but Verdelets' bomb had been a casualty as well, and the tail slid limply to the ground. He sighed, and then jerked his head to the side, flinching as he realized the balefire beam had entered the unstable portal. The portal was a bit more stable now, having leeched a good deal of power from it, but that wasn't going to last, and he had another problem, a repeat of the first time, actually. He pulled V'elen's crystals back in, before turning and quickly heading back to his two kitsunes, and kneeling down outside the forcebubble. He absorbed the power from it, and felt V'elen sigh with relief as more power returned. "Are you two fine?"<br/><br/>He was wearing his usual shirt and pants, but his eyes were betraying that he wasn't as calm as he was trying to sound like. "I know you two are gonna wanna torture V'elen for his stunt earlier, but I have a fairly serious problem."<br/><br/>He paused as several hundreds of boots sounded in the room below, and several death squad constructs appeared at the door leading to the lower levels, weapons out and fanned to cover the room. He dismissed the constructs, and turned back to his wives. "The way Verdelet made the portal has, in a clear cut case of irony, made it bind to me. I can't get more than about twenty five, thirty feet from it. I can slow its... rather catastrophic collapse, and have a way to mitigate most of the energy, but you two are going to be pissed at the idea. Basically, I turn it into a more 'normal' portal, and then have me and what is left of the death squad go through it. It will bleed a good bit of the power off, but I have no idea where or even WHEN I will come out. At first. That kind of power drain will have to disperse eventually, and I SHOULD return here, but no idea when."