"Shee-jawk!" he ordered and I watched her try to decide what to do.In the end she wasn't willing to do anything other than circle, so Idecided to atta...ck first. I jumped in the air with a kick to her stomachthat seemed to surprise her completely by how much it hurt! She went tograpple with me, but I managed to wriggle free. At one point she nearlymade me cry with a loud animal like howl, but I kept moving. I continuedto leap and kick at her for several minutes with her only managing toland one. There's no going back now. He’s fed enough mana into the incantation that cutting off the flow would only destabilise it. The resulting explosion would wipe out this wing of the Guild. The forbidden tome has earned its moniker.In a flash that sent Miria reeling, the incantation vanishes, a dense purple miasma spilling out and enshrouding the mage at once. Just stay calm… it’s working perfectly. Miria repeats it in his mind like a mantra, frantically searching for any traces of movement. It’s. Next I felt the samecold wet feeling on my other eye. Again, she said to keep my eyesclosed. I felt her fanning my face with something...About a minute later, she stopped fanning my face and said I could openmy eyes. I looked in the mirror and saw what was eyeliner had beenapplied. She turned my head back to her and told me to look up.Picking up another black tube, she opened it and produced a brush atthe end of a handle. I realized it was mascara. Looking towards theceiling, she brushed. Derek made a disgusted face. "I think it's time we start to deal with this thing head on."The other two looked at him silently, waiting for elaboration, but none was forthcoming."First things first," he said. "I need to get in touch with my brother and mom. Tomorrow I want to go survey the place you said the car came from and see if we can learn anything from that." He turned and stepped out of the trailer without another word. Silver shrugged at Andrew and shook his head.Derek had opted to.