Ishmerai is dealing with the remaining cat-size shadows. As for the brute... It's big and lumbering enough that there are openings she could try for. 

Welp.

She waits for a good one where if she misses it won't hit Persephone, and then aims and throws.

Ouch, right in the eye. 

The brute clutches its face and falls back, warding against Persephone's cuts with its free arm. 

Persephone harries it until it retreats back out of the hallway, still clutching the knife in its face. 

That's Yvette's contribution to this fight accomplished! Now to not die. ... And maybe kick some cat-sized Shadows if she gets the chance.

It looks like she is going to get a chance to do that... right about now.

Persephone wades forward through the second mass of shadows, batting them aside into Ishmerai's mouths with wide sweeps of her sword. She beckons. "Hurry, we don't have much time before that Shadow returns."

"Coming," says Yvette, successfully accounting for a cat-sized Shadow's speed and punting it into a mouth. And then she follows Persephone, or attempts to.

Persephone's cuts through the mass of shadowlings seem to be clearing an adequate path, though her pace isn't exactly fast. 

Well she's faster than Yvette would be when dealing with a mass of shadowlings, so they'll have to hope it'll be enough. She will punt if a good punt is open to her, and keep Persephone from being flanked if she can, but that's about all she can contribute.

Persephone hands her the gun between swipes. "Give this to Ishmerai to reload." 

"By, tossing it into a mouth, or?" asks Yvette.

"Works."

Yvette finds an open mouth, and tosses it in.

After a few moments, Ishmerai's upper half emerges from the wall and hands it back to her. 

"That was a good shot. I'm sorry I don't have a second knife for you."

"Thanks," she says, taking the gun. "I'm just sorry that my attack method involves throwing my weapon away."

"So am I."

She returns the gun to Persephone.

"So is the big one a mid-rank?" she wonders, because she's got nothing to dodge and nothing really to do right now.

Persphone fires the gun, and with a flash of brilliant light, the Shadows vanish from the path. She grabs Yvette's hand and yanks her into a run before Ishmerai has a chance to answer her question. 

Okay, this works too! Yvette tables her silly question and focuses on running.

Hallway hallway hallway door street

The smell of rotting wood and sulfur rolls into the hallway. 

Right on time. You would think a precognitive would be able to see this sort of thing coming.

Yvette keeps very quiet and gives Persephone a 'What do you want me to do?' look.

Persephone looks at Yvette.

Two hulking shadows emerge from the door, spreading out to cut off the group's escape. One of them still has Yvette's knife stuck in its eye.