Scarlet was tugging enthusiastically at Dylan's sleeve, dragging him out toward the cleared courtyard.
"Look, Big Bro! Watch me also, Big sis!" Scarlet giggled, her face flushed with excitement.
"I'm looking." Dylan smiled as he acquiesced to his sister's urging.
"Go ahead, Scarlet." Victoria also responded in kind.
"Er...." She closed her eyes, concentrating hard.
With a soft, echoing chime, nine majestic, flame-wreathed tails materialized behind her small body, floating gracefully like ethereal ribbons.
She willed one of the tails forward. It moved as naturally as her own arm, flexing and sweeping through the air with fluid precision.
*Whoosh!*
"Attack!" With a playful shout, Scarlet swung two of the fiery tails down toward a pile of heavy stone rubble left behind from the night before.
*BOOM!*
