[color=#1A1A3B][b][u][h1][sub][sub][sub]Farren[/sub][/sub][/sub][/h1][/u][/b][/color]		    kept on going and despite not finding the result he’d desired, he did not despair. Besides, Gerlinde had dealt it considerable pain, and the noise of the Beastflayer’s blades grating through its rotten flesh and against its stubborn bone was oddly satisfying in its own way. Yet, the hunger did not abate and Farren’s right arm carried the motion backwards, flicking the weapon as its segments became near one another once more. His left hand found the tail end of the pole and twisted the mechanism.

He was still moving the entire time, inexorably devouring the remaining meters between himself and the beast, his azure eyes locked with the eyeless gaze of the monster as he ran. Distantly, some part of him noticed not his strength flagging, but a sense of heaviness beginning to slowly rise from deeper in his body, as if borne from his bones and unto his blood. Farren ignored it, his hunger, his rage, and the need to keep the beast thoroughly busy even as Ophelia called out, reminding them all of their true goal. The Beastflayer snapped back together into a glaive, its bladed end trailing behind him for a moment before he brought it to bear once more. By then he’d covered much of the distance already, no more than two meters between himself and his prey.

Eyes wide, Farren noted as the beast began to move, raising its right arm up–claws glowing with actinic light–likely to perform a downwards strike. Undeterred, Farren didn’t wait for it to finish, instead his gaze shifted northeast and then he pushed forward in a blur of motion, quickstepping as far as he could towards the broken chain, covering 5 of the 8 meters in a fraction of a second. As he exited the movement he felt his lungs burning and abandoned the notion of a second quickstep to cover the remaining 3 meters, instead keeping the pace he’d been maintaining moments prior. He was trying to reach the damaged chain link, with any luck he might get there before the monster’s attack hit ground.