Ishmerai vanishes.

Yvette eyes the shadow with the knife in its eye, calculating ways to maybe get it back and then deeming them all really likely to get her killed.

"... So this would be a great time for a cunning plan to be revealed," she says conversationally to Persephone.

"This is the cunning plan."

Not sufficiently cunning. Now then, would you care to surrender?

"You know, somehow I just don't get the impression that you treat your prisoners to Geneva Convention standards."

No.

In lieu of continuing the conversation, the shadow points a finger at Yvette's head. Black energy gathers, extends -  

And burns a hole through the air a few inches to the right of Yvette's face, thanks to a timely shove from Persephone. 

Awesome. That's fine by Yvette. She'll just - uh, focus on dodging, now. Eeep.

The shadow chuckles, and adds a second finger. A pair of annihilating beams lance out - 

Persephone doesn't shove Yvette: she can dodge this one on her own. Instead, she levels her gun at one of the hulking bruisers. 

Yvette does dodge on her own! Precogs: often right about these sorts of things. Even if Yvette is internally going AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

The half-blind bruiser instinctively moves aside from Persephone's gun - 

- and directly into one of those beams of annihilating darkness. 

No more Shadow.

"Get the knife!"

Yvette goes! Watching for more annihilating beams, because holy shit, but she would like her knife back please.

Persephone must doing something very distracting, because the next few beams aren't anywhere near the mark.

Excellent. But she is checking anyway because aaaa.

Knife! Does she get it without issue?

The leather-wrapped handle presses firmly into her hand.

Excellent. Now she has a weapon!

Does she have a free shot to the annihilation beam shadow? She'd like to hit it in the eye with the knife.

The annihilation-beam shadow has a whole hand extended towards Persephone now, independently shifting five rays as Persephone ducks and dodges between them. Her eyes glow brilliant gold, but Yvette can already see it beginning to fade...

Yeah, okay, good enough for Yvette.

Knife. Eye. Please?

Knife intersects eye, and the shadow falls to one knee with a sound somewhere between a scream and a buzzsaw.

Excellent, Yvette is contributing so much to this fight. She's kind of surprised.

But now that she's without a weapon (again) it's time to - dodge and stay out of the way. Is there anything that is looking like it's going to murder her?

The remaining hulking shadow is closing on her rather quickly.