Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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*Clenches the two fingers into a fist*
Yes.
*Gravity increases several times over, cratering the ground at your feet and pulling Midnight down like an asteroid in a blazing fireball*

@Etcetera

*My expression drops to a more serious tone and stone snaps from beneath my footing as I shift my stance before jumping anyway, soaring in an arc upwards and snagging Midnight out of the air in a tackle, all in the direction of the path she illuminated*

Myriad Reality

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*A purple signal extends in a circle around me, shining brightly when it moves across a path we walked*

@Legend Begins

...

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Are you done yet?
*Points two fingers at you*

@Etcetera

Is that a trick question?

Myriad Reality

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*Takes a deep breath*
Alright... one, two...
*Runs and steps onto your hands*

@Legend Begins

*Hurls you upward, sending you nearly-perfectly vertically and well over the height of the high-rises around us*

Myriad Reality

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I—probably! I think so!

@Legend Begins

*Laces my fingers together and lowers my hands to my knees while squatting just slightly*

Myriad Reality

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Not worried about that part at all. What've you got in mind?

@Legend Begins

I throw you. Up.

Myriad Reality

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I—probably! I think so!

@Legend Begins

*Glances with a cautious side-eye toward Misty*
And how about your confidence in landing?

Myriad Reality

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*Switches my attention from one building to the next around the city*
It... yeah, it all looks the same.

@Legend Begins

Could you spot it from a bird’s eye view?

Myriad Reality

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We can leave where we came from! We just need to get there before it's too late!

@Legend Begins

Right!… Where?

Myriad Reality

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*Eclipse and I reach your position, surrounded by a purple bubble of light that shifts like gelatin in delayed reaction to our movement*
Phoebe! We're done here!

@Legend Begins

Thank heavens!

Myriad Reality

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Why do you care?
*Materializes a dozen spinning knives at my position, which launch upward into you*

@Etcetera

A number of reasons…
*Glances to the side at a large piece of kicked-up rubble and shifts it in front of me, blocking a number of the knives as I move out of the way of most of the others, with one managing to knick my calf*