this is not, actually, where ling yao was trying to portal to
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Unfortunately for their enemies, they pissed off the wrong woman. 

Ling derives more than a little satisfaction, hearing the deep booms echoing in their shelter, and emerging to dead enemies and demolished fortifications - though she won't have time to savor it, not until every last enemy is destroyed. 

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Dead enemies in this case doesn't necessarily mean harmless- But she's taken out the dragons and most of the roofs, leaving the ghouls and zombies to scramble out and up a treacherous path to try to strike back.

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That treacherous path makes them easy pickings. 

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How... infuriating.

A large blast of magic spears straight up into the sky, exposing an icy pedestal at the top of the citadel where a shrouded figure rests, frozen upon a throne.

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How does he feel about getting hit by siege weapons? (These are not very accurate weapons. There's enough firing that accuracy doesn't, actually, matter.)

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Not positively.

As the platform crumbles beneath him, the Lich King in his block of ice swoops up into the sky. A magical blizzard kicks up and focuses on disabling the artillery.

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Is the blizzard strong enough to prevent her from firing an alkahestric anchor at him?

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The winds are high and visibility is poor. The Lich King, while smaller than a dragon, isn't a tiny target.

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Firing an anchor out of a gun or cannon is a tricky proposition, but the winds are too high and distances too far for more traditional knives -

And Ling is very, very good at what she does. 

She'll try it, at least. 

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And... she manages to land a hit.

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Time to rip him apart. 

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She'll have to pump a considerable amount of power into her efforts to get through the magical wards.

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Power is something she has.

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How about ability to avoid exploding shards of supersonic ice, is that something she has? Because that's what she'll get when the frozen throne breaks.

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The exertion of power alone would've been enough to render her nearly unconscious -

She's going to need help on this one.

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Fortunately, she has it.

Brigid is moving by the time the first cracks appear, and she spreads her wings wide in front of Ling, sheltering her with her larger body.

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She curls into Brigid's protection.

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Nothing makes it through to hurt Ling.

And as the hail of shards dies down, so does the blizzard.

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...Brigid may also need to carry her from here. Ling's exhausted, somewhere deeper than her bones.

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Yeah. She can do that.

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She curls into Brigid and drifts off, half out of consciousness. 

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She cradles Ling tenderly, and gently takes off to find somewhere safe to rest.

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She's certainly comfortable. 

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Brigid will make sure she stays that way until she recovers, finding a quiet bolthole where they can stay safe.

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She wakes up after a little while, snuggling into Brigid more and cracking her eyes open. 

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