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==>The snow had gotten heavier. Rose walked out into it. It was better than being on fire, but slow going. She let one needlewand slide back into her hand, and pointed it at the ground. Nothing. At the air. Nothing. She wasn't going anywhere her own feet didn't deign to carry her. Her powers were well and truly blasted back to square one
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Guy's boots crunched in the snow as he walked onto the powdered field, though it was clear just from the tracks that he spotted in it that a number of people had been this way already. Had there been any fights? Was something waiting out in the dark and the cold for them?
He was going to have to assume that was the case, mainly for the sake of being thorough and not allowing himself to be taken by surprise. He closed the door once both Claude and Anise had exited, and then nodded to the wall that was to their right.
"Let's stick to the wall." Once they reached a part that looked climbable, Guy wasn't going to waste any time getting up and over. He just hoped that Anise would be able to keep him with him and Claude. It wasn't that he didn't believe in her capabilities, but she was much smaller than them. Climbing the wall had to be much more of a challenge for her.
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Claude was one step ahead of him, though. He pulled out that gun; Guy had seen him carrying it around before, but this was the first time that he'd ever seen it fired. He shielded his eyes when the bright flash burst forth and took a few steps back, but when he opened his eyes the brainwashed patient was still standing. It seemed that even a gun wasn't going to be enough to put this guy down.
Anise had finally gotten the chance to deploy an Arte of hers, though, and Guy made sure to give the man an even wider birth as the dark flames assaulted him. That seemed to do the trick, but the man was only out of commission for a short time. Guy really didn't know what he was babbling on about, but it hardly mattered when the next thing he did was toss ( ... )
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