The blinding radiance erupting from Juna's throat detonated with the heat of a miniature falling star, scorching the rabbit-woman's claws into smoking cinders.
A piercing shriek tore from the beast's jaws as she dropped Juna and leaped backward thirty paces across the amphitheater, clutching her blackened, blistered wrists to her chest.
"What is that foul celestial ignition!" the rabbit-woman shrieked in sudden agony, her crimson eyes burning with panicked fury as caustic embers ate into her gray fur.
"A three-Wing wolf summon cannot produce sacred celestial fire of that magnitude!" she snarled, desperately scraping her scorched paws against the floor to extinguish the heat.
Juna landed gracefully upon the cracked bedrock on all fours, her slender fingertips leaving smoking grooves in the ancient stone.
Instead of springing to her feet immediately, she remained coiled low against the floor as the dormant genetic legacy of her ancient bloodline surged through her veins.
