[center][b]Free Billy[/b][/center]

“How do you expect us to talk to it?” Eowyn's centaur form asked Mime. Although her words weren't pointlessly complicated as Sleipnir's, in this form the horse's influence could certainly be felt. Regardless, Eowyn weeded a path through the crowd, waving her sword back and forth to scare people aside. It wasn't hard to wade through now; as she was far larger than anything but the fish on the beach. When she finally reached it, Eowyn let Quartz attempt to slow the kart, as she herself grazed sand from the beach put her hands on the cracks; putting the sand to the glass and letting the heat do it's job. If she could fill the cracks and discourage the fish from ramming into hot glass, she and Quartz might buy some time together.

[center][b]Will 'o the Piper[/b][/center]

Easier said than done, Sigmund thought, when it came to catching up with Charles and Sophia. They were a lot faster than the rook, and then there was a raging Medusa behind him... And whatever his spirit had done, Sigmund didn't feel like going through again... He'd have to rendezvous with Charles later, if he wanted to stay in the action.

Sigmund once again summoned his hookshot, and one after another targeted the kappa that were chasing Charles. Instead of killing them, however, he jerked the chains and threw them right at Medusa. In her primal rage, she wasted a lot of time tearing their slimy bodies apart. It was a brutal stalling technique, but if it gave Charles the opportunity to outrun his spirit, Sigmund had done his job...

“One messed up mission this is.” He grumbled to himself.

[center][b]A Clayman's Finale[/b][/center]

“That's one way of putting on the pressure.” Lux murmured, as Salia pointed out how they were being locked in. “I suppose that corners our target, but it's pretty nerve-wrecking to know we won't be getting out either.” He said off-hand. That white queen sure had a brutal kind of efficiency...

Lux wandered further ahead; the only way they could go either how. He hoped that Salia and he would catch onto Valenci's trail soon, or that the others had. In hindsight, leaving Maria and Adeline to fend for their selves was not the easiest choice to wrap his head around. By the times he had made it out by the skin of his teeth, Lux felt splitting up might not have been the best idea...

“We'd best keep moving.” Lux said, “We got our selves a grave-robber to catch, don't we?” But when Salia and he reached the split pathway, he wasn't sure what direction to take from there. Was this some kind of maze-mission?

“Behind which of these doors is the grand prize?” He mused, “We can take the front door, but something tells me doctor Valenci isn't at the main exposition... Otherwise all this moving of a full-blown temple wouldn't be so new. What do you think we should do from here, Salia?”