The mud child had smushed itself on the floor of the train, avoiding the incredibly fast staff and the racing fireballs, intending to dispatch the child in short order. It was an entirely defensive move, one indicating either the child had more sentience than the visage indicated or it was incredibly lucky.

The one clone that had cast the weird energies from its eyes ran forward and seemingly exploded in a splash of mud and detritus from the spot it detonated, while the majority of the mud child washed out through the newly created holes in the metal skin of the train.

Skallagrim, controlled the aesr, wrapping elements of the amethyst energies around the train, with the bulk of the energy centered on the car the Dreamer currently stood. As surging energies washed against the walls of the train car, wrapping around the mag-lev tracks and latching on the electro-magnetic energies that raced the train forward.

It was at this point that the three remaining mud children, the original and the two clones gained a sudden and definitive increase in mass. One charged the flame elementalist, the arms elongating in a bizarre fashion. The arms glowed with similar energy signals as the clone that had exploded. It seemed that the mud child was an energy user and that energy extended to his clones to some weakened degree.

The Dreamer pondered this event as he watched the mud child and his remaining clone. It appeared that the child was not so much as melee combatant, rather a puppet master with minor energy attacks of some sort.

With a casual move, the war sword slipped free of the sheath and dipped into a low guard with the blade ready to move in whatever direction was needed to affect a defense or attack as the situation required.

However the continuing surge of energy that emanated from the Dreamer continued to flow freely, mingling with incredible energy required to propel the train forward at nearly 200 miles per hour
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That energy, the electrical output, silvery-blue shifted and melded with the amethyst energies, creating a resonating and thrumming sound, slowly filling the car. The Dreamer felt the surge of energy within his frame, as he did so the underside of the train began to glow with a shimmering light. The metal track and under carriage took on a pale yellow-orange hue. Soon the events beneath the train would become evident, until then the Dreamer stood ready.