#aegisshield

The rat’s stage is dismantled in a ray of blinding light just the same as the ones before it, wiping the arena clean before painting it into a new image. Before them spans a massive den spun in ivory silk and, from its center, a massive spider hisses.

Suddenly, she misses the rats.

Other spiders watch from the arena’s newly formed ceiling, hanging from branch like beams that jut out from the ground. They’re dark and gray and rotting, barbed things that pulsate like a beating heart. Corrin cringes away from the nearest one.

“Do we... lure it out?” Wary is her suggestion, made with a final glance towards what appears to be their main foe. It doesn’t seem to have any interest in moving from its web, eight pupils darting hungrily between her and her comrades. She steps towards Marianne, watching as the spider’s gaze snaps instantly towards her movement. “Here, let me-”

Amaterasu and Prayer Ring activate! 2 HP restored; Corrin 7.5/10 Corrin casts Recover on Marianne [1]. 5 HP restored; Marianne 9/10

Magic blooms from her fingertips, warming the place where her hand meets the girl’s arm. She affords the other’s horse a single pat before stepping back to the side, fingers twitching for the familiar hem of her sleeve.

It’s only then that she realizes she is standing at the center of an what is quite possibly hell in a wedding dress. Warmth colors her cheeks. Definitely not the ideal apocalypse attire.