The Villain's Hero
She managed to gouge the sticky, many-faceted orb, so that the creature shied back, wounded and wailing, thrashing against the portal that still held it as it squirmed back into its own world, the sharp leg that pierced Tarragon’s thigh dragging her back with it.
Intuin Desparen was still in my hand, and I leaped, wings spread, catching the shifting currents of the magic-charged air, high above the monster before plunging down, with the full force of my falling bodyweight behind Intuin Desparen’s blade.
The monster shrieked as my blade severed its leg, and its flailing knocked me through the portal into the other realm. The earth on this side was as fine as dust. I leaped into the air, dodgi