**Chapter 10: Turning the Tides**
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Landing in a crouch beside Vale's unconscious form, Eira quickly assessed her injuries. Cuts and nasty bruising - but alive. Small favors, though dire moments away from the wraiths above likely finding them.
There is no time to delay, urgently invoking healing sigils to rouse her friend, Eira asked “Can you stand?”
Vale grimaced, struggling upright. “Somehow...”
The stone outcrop trembled under renewed assault. Peering over the ledge, Eira glimpsed Arlo barely holding the spectral forces at bay now alone atop the rapidly deteriorating psychic bridge. The spectral forces is getting stronger, they had to turn the tide...or else no one would be escaping this onslaught.
Grasping Vale’s shoulders, Eira said “This ends now - with ourElement-TwinedTornado maneuver!”
Vale’smirk turned fierce with recollection of the paired magical attack they’d perfected back home for sport. Perhaps their only hope here...
Trusting Vale could follow her lead, Eira summoned her deepest wellspring of air energy and leapt them both up atop a column of swirling wind.
Guided by Eira’s gusts, Vale added her icy magics, sheets of frost mixing with the whirlwind as they spun faster gaining momentum before diving straight into the dark heart of the wraith mass!
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