Starglow Basin bruja,

i'm going to go a different direction with qiao. please let her and eset escape (if that's what eset wants!). sorry to rope y'all into this and then lose the plot but so much has changed since this thread was started <33. since this thread is older i think any major outcome would break a few toons' timelines now. @Legend , would u like to come in and save your girl?? thanks for the thread all, PM me if you have any questions or hate this idea

she waited for a moment that did not come.

it was then the overworld's whisperings came to her; she craned one long ear in their direction, eyes gradually widening as their command spilled across her mind like ink.

eset. the woman's paws reached for hers, warm to a touch so used to cold. qiao ignored saya's cutting blue gaze, turning as soto advanced upon her.

soto's kick rounded upon qiao's thin ribcage. she doubled over in pain, teeth gritting as she refused to give him the satisfaction of a yelp.

laid out on the ground, the overworld's voices became a roar.

i won't. eset's voice distant as if passing through the mouth of a cave.

qiao lunged for soto as he stood over her, her teeth wrapping around the scarred limb disfigured by khusobek's might.

she concentrated every iota of power remaining in a terrific heave, pulling the bastard's leg out from under him. GO! she mentally shrieked to eset , aiming a rough shove at soto's rising skull with one hard shoulder as she clambered over him and towards the opening.

she did not look back at any of them; the ground whirled past in dizzying speed, and ever so distantly qiao heard the seething will of the overworld bounding at her heels.