'Just - about - there!' And she slices through the last familiar, then darts for Kaylee and the witch, clearing her grief seed as she goes.

When she gets into the sphere, she takes a moment to orient herself, then leaps for the witch, sword at the ready.

A few more familiars head toward her but Kaylee manages to head them off from afar, and she lands successfully on the witch.

"You must be Lianne," new girl deadpans.  (Up close, it becomes clear that she's a few years older than either of them.  Also, her weapons aren't exactly swords - they're sword-like, but the handles are just about as long as the blades.)  "Your friend's got us covered pretty well.  Let's take this thing down."  She nods to the middle of the giant cluster of cranes and starts climbing downwards.

"Let's."

Lianne follows, occasionally sticking a sword in a joint, at the ready in case the witch retaliates.

It does: once again it starts clawing at the interlopers with enormous mechanical claws.  The new girl is fast and nimble enough to dodge out of the way as she climbs down.

Lianne isn't always, but her swords are sturdy and she swings hard, and now she's on the look out for the trick from earlier.

Soon they're near enough to the center or the witch for New Girl to start doing her level best to turn its insides into a gold sword-staff pincushion.

She can be joined by Lianne's giant swords, as many as she can economically summon, applied as strategically as she knows how - mostly fouling up joints and in anything delicate-looking. She grabs existing swords and yanks them out before throwing them elsewhere on occasion.

Stab!  Stab!  Stab stab stab!

The witch's screams get progressively more pained and ear-rending, until eventually - 

"Shit, get clear - "

 - the witch's body starts collapsing around them.

Screw economy, she's cutting her way clear, summoning swords left and right to prop up an exit.

New Girl doesn't bother trying to cut anything out of the way, just springs and leaps and dodges through the air as fast as she can.

They escape just as the witch collapses into a pile of rubble.

The labyrinth shimmers out of existence, and leaves them in the middle of the woods.

"Yeah, motherfucker!" she yells in the general direction the witch had been a moment ago.  She cackles triumphantly.

Lianne drops her outfit, then eyes her soul gem. It's hovering around half brightness - she'd summoned a lot of swords, and towards the end there she hadn't been being as careful as normal. She goes ahead and clears her soul gem, then looks around. 

"Kaylee, you okay?" she calls out.

She landed a ways away, but appears in one piece.  She walks over.  "Fine.  You all right?"

Small smile. "Yeah." Then she turns to the new girl and says: "Hey, thanks for helping. Not sure we could've taken that all on our own."

"Don't mention it."

She picks up the grief seed from the ground, taps it lightly to her soul gem, then detransforms and pockets it.

"Hold on, I gotta," she gestures with a cell phone and then dials a number.

"Hey, Tag."

...

"I took some big fucker down, think it was yours."

...

"Routine.  Met a couple local girls, they were friendly.  Keep an eye on, where am I, Jackson?  For the next couple days, hedge our bets, but I'm pretty sure that was our target."

...

"See ya."

She hangs up and turns back to Lianne and Kaylee.  "Yeah, no problem.  Everyone okay?"

She's guessing this girl's planning on keeping the grief seed, then. Not that she minds, she still has extra, and it sounds like the other girl was tracking this witch anyways.

"We're good. Did you just move here, or are you passing through?"

"I'm a nomad.  Sorry," she adds, flashing a grin.  "This is your and - Kaylee? - Kaylee's city?  I'm not sticking around."

"We're glad you were here to help. Not really ours - not too many witches out here, so we mostly hunt with a group in the nearest big city. We were here because this thing decided to attack our school... Annnnd I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble for skipping class. Um, anyways, do you want to keep in contact? We've been trying to build a network, we could share intelligence and stuff. Maybe occasionally get together for a particularly nasty witch."

"You've got a team?  How'd you manage that?"

"Mallory organized it - she's in, like, her twenties, and runs what's officially a scouting group. There's six of us total. We're trying to coordinate with girls in other cities, but no real luck so far."

"Still, that's pretty impressive if she gets it to work.  Groups like that tend to break down pretty quick in my experience."

"A lot of us already knew each other, so that helps, I think, as does having someone older to - kind of moderate the group. Keep us on track and all. But, yeah, Kaylee and I've run into some really unfriendly girls before."

"Sounds about right," New Girl grins.  "Oh, uh, I'm Tobi, by the way."

"Lianne and Kaylee. Nice to meet you, Tobi."

"You too.  Uh, I guess you guys cut class to come fight this witch?  You should probably get back, huh?  That's what an adult would say in this situation I bet."