https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-14.mov Tracey finally emerged from the shadows with Derrin’s gun. Without missing a beat, she eliminated the Tenebris. It only took her a few seconds to aim and shoot. Jioni regained herself and raced toward Tracey. She hugged her and demonstrated all her built-up incompetence with this gesture. The woman was stiff, unwelcoming, and cold. …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-13-2.mov Jioni peered out for a weapon. Desperate hands snapped a bough from one of the dead trees. And the moment she spun around, Tenebris surrounded her. The branch pushed the Tenebris back and then impaled them. She swung and swiped until a Tenebris knocked her bough out of her hand. So she punched, and …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-12.mov A new Tenebris appeared. She still held her face, but with her legs, she crouched to the ground and swept kicked it. As the Tenebris crashed to the floor, she kicked it again harder. This kick felt new. It was the kick of discomfort and panic. She stepped back and wanted nothing more but …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-11.mov Jioni had little time to rebound as another Tenebris held her chin back. Something about this position filled her with fear. Her body immediately froze, and her thoughts processed too slowly to react to anything. This was the same attack that damaged her face yesterday. She pulled with all her weight down, her face …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-10.mov The Tenebris lifted her and revealed its teeth. Jioni winced. Multiple Tenebris soon drew near. She exhaled once, then used all her strength to lift herself. She punched the Tenebris with clenched fists. Her arms were sore. Her stomach felt tight. Then her knuckles throbbed in pain—how was LaMesha able to do this yesterday …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-9-1.mov She raced through the dense fog and stumbled halfway onto the floor. Jioni saw the culprit, a Tenebris crystal. It exploded right there, and even worse, it attracted the Tenebris to her location. A branchy Tenebris grabbed her right leg. It felt rigid and scratchy on her. Then the Tenebris pulled and dragged her …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-8.mov It soon became evident how ineffective her fight was. As Jioni struck another Tenebris, the blade broke off and clinked to the floor. With this, she swung that stick like a bat—a very defective bat. her fight equipped with a stick ended as it crumbled and chipped away in her palms. She tossed the …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-7-1.mov A Tenebris raced towards her, and Jioni raced towards it. Her first strike was forceful and fluid. She stopped the thoughts and strategy; instead, her moves went off instinct. Though sometimes the lance missed, she found it better than falling and kicking around in the dirt. There was no choreography, no graceful dance, just …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-6.mov Her hand felt a Tenebris crystal. One that she could potentially throw. And while the Tenebris started to creep near her. She glided the crystal through her fingers and then threw it. The crystal flew, it exploded. The Tenebris soon followed. Jioni gulped and then felt around for her weapon. Through the dense fog, …
https://rosemadi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8-5-1.mov “Remember! Page 31, page 31,” Tracey screamed from the shadows. Embarrassment followed immediately. She didn’t know page 31 that well, let alone how to execute it in a high-activity place like this, but in a desperate show of impressing, she attempted 31. One leg behind. The other forward and swing. She stumbled and barely …
