[8]<br/>Chorgath's psychic will lashes outwards, chains and bindings and worse; the Day Caste can feel the tingle of Essence coming for her, and reacts with a certain faux-casual disregard: the long knives in her hand spin like batons, not only keeping key grasping points from closing but propelling her from easy follow-ups.<br/><br/>[10]<br/>The Day Caste does pause a half-moment as Sanger makes his arrival, affording him a half-glance in that half-moment.  Then, as he roars at her, it<em>smiles</em>, the white block of its mouth on the swirling purple-black of its anima curling with sadistic delight.<br/><br/>"The door!" Ruby finally manages-- she's obviously glad to see Sanger still alive, but there's something more pressing.  She tugs on the Dawn's shoulder and points to what it takes him a bit to see might have been a free-standing door and door frame: one side of the frame slashed cleanly through.  "We got the door," she says, panicked, "but we have to have the whole frame!  The key won't work in a broken door!"<br/><br/>[11]<br/><strong>"It seemed precious to your friends,"</strong>the Day Caste explains helpfully.  Well, 'maliciously', at least.<strong>"So I broke it.  Just like I'm going to break everything that was precious to her..."</strong><br/><br/>A beat, and then the deathknight has suddenly sublimated into killing intent.<br/><br/>A blur of motion, and Suicides throws himself to the side at the last second, sparks scraping from his armor as it is kissed by blades.<br/><br/>Another flash, and Samaro has his blade half-drawn from its sheath, deflecting an attack into the wind-nibbled wall hangings.<br/><br/>Then it is on Sanger...<br/><br/>And then it is on Chorgath-- Sondok puts herself in front of it, unmoving and unmoved, and deflects the deathknight's knives.  The deathknight's follow-up, meant specifically for Sondok herself, slides -just- past her guard and scores a lengthy but shallow cut along her thigh-- and the demon's expression stiffens suddenly...<br/><br/>And then, as the remaining of Anjushri's attendants attempt to rejoin their saviors, three of them start to collapse as the Abyssal falls upon them: one starting to spout blood from the neck, another stumbling as something pierces her chest from behind, a third torn almost apart by an x-shaped scoring wound blossoming on her chest.<br/><br/>A flash of white, the world tilting madly out of focus and a sense of nightmarish killing prowess, and then when the Day Caste permits time to resume, each of the three attendants... more or less falls apart into a series of body parts and viscera.  Sondok herself sways on her feet for a moment as a sudden gush of brackish blood splatters the ground at her feet, oozing from behind her reinforced breastplate, but she stays up and ready and intent.  Nothing,<em>nothing</em>, is going to keep her from her property.<br/><br/>[12]<br/><strong>"There's no way out for any of you," </strong>the deathknight announces delightedly as the gibblets of her kills begin their process of spilling to the floor.<strong>"Everyone she cared for dies with her.  Nothing escapes.  Nothing--"</strong><br/><br/>Whatever she was planning to say is lost as she twists to parry Samaro's long, glittering sword, turning it aside at the absolute last moment.  "Are all your kind given to monologues in the middle of a battle?" the raksha asks with the hint of a smile, not of her but of the room as a whole.  "And here I had thought it one of Rakshastan's lost arts..."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tick Order</div><div class="spoiler_body">14 - Chorgath, Void, Cailana, Ruby and Cerulean (panicking!/Guarding), remaining Varazslany (regrouping/Moving), Suicides (Guarding until he can think of a plan)<br/>15 - Sanger, Day Caste<br/>16 - Sondok (Guarding Chorgath)<br/>18 - Samaro<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">The Day Caste rolled terribly for its attack on Sanger, so while he gets a chance to stunt, y'don't have to.<br/>+1 stunt for Chorgath.  Just for notes, as per the Unseen Force Application, the MHM attack never becomes unexpected-- only unblockable, and only for mortals.  The Day manages to get around the penalty with a timely application of a perfect defense, tho.<br/>Sondok was seriously wounded by the hit, but she's still up.</div></div></div></div>