This is a moment frozen in time. 

Blood is rushing to her head. She can tell because she feels hot and dizzy for reasons that have nothing to do with how tired she is. The words sink slowly through Euna's skull, twisting her face right back into confusion. She shakes her head. She stares ahead, eyes diamond hard and ready for a fight. Hardlight answers her challenge, and she leaps straight into it. 

This is not a pattern Euna has seen before. She doesn't know the holes at all. It doesn't matter; the holes know her. She bursts through the lobby on a fresh surge of speed. She is invincible. She is untouchable. She has stamina for days. She is... she is!

Free!

Euna Kim crashes through the doors leading out of the AEGIS pyramid with a roar and a thunderclap that rivals any of Sylvanus' missile strikes. Or at least, it seems like to her. Her eyes are on the tree. Only on the tree. How many times has she dreamed of touching this thing? How many times has she said she'd get it next time? Did she ever even think she'd really do it? Well it doesn't matter now. No one's gonna pop out and congratulate her. They're not putting her name on the plaque for this. The strategically optimal thing is to--

She strikes. Form perfect. Remember how she showed you, Sara? Wrist locked straight, make contact with the index and middle knuckles only. Drive with the hip and step through to add your entire body to the power of the blow. There's another crack like lightning, and the tree splits in half, from the trunk all the way up the middle to its highest branches. The two sides fall apart from each other until the roots catch in the ground, and they both settle in a huge V pattern, leaning away from each other. Euna spits on the ground. 

And without waiting another second, she grabs Sara and lifts her into a princess carry before dashing off into the streets. 

"You! Are! Such! An! [i]Ass![/i] I can't believe you'd say that to me!"

She's laughing and crying and coughing all at the same time. It's the ugliest sound you've ever heard. But if you listen closely, you can hear the trill of her stupid dorky giggle bubbling underneath it all. The one that means she's ok. Yes, she's ok. She'll [i]be[/i] ok. Because...

Because she's got someone. She's got the one person she thought she wanted from the very beginning. She's got you, Sara.

[clearing Angry]