The fused monster reeled, its wings jerking out unevenly as it tried to stabilize itself. One clawed foot dug into the arena floor with a sickening crack, shattering the reinforced tiles beneath it.
Bea's field pulsed.
The green head spasmed again. This time harder. One of its eyes blinked out of sync. Then the fused body buckled beneath it, slamming one claw into the ground to stabilize itself.
Kain could feel it.
Bea was no longer within the dragon's mind. At least not fully. She seemed to be in a strange space where he could barely sense her—which worried him immensely. If something went horribly wrong, he wasn't even confident in being able to recall her back to his star space.
Indeed, Bea had entered the unstable crack in the dragon's mind. She appeared in an empty, lightless, directionless space. The only objects available to reorient herself were 4 faint openings in different directions of the space.
