[ She's prepared for that. Akua was not called the Doom of Liesse for nothing, and she let him come, an array of bursts of fire, to make him think it was not so easily found, but her shield was the real target. He knows it is, she can see it in his eye, that he does not care, that he wants to slam straight through, and take her. Akua would let one person on any reality take her without something even close to the fight she was capable of.

When he came close, she did not flinch. She barely blinked. When his talons made their way to her, she smiled, sharp, and wicked, her gold eyes were aflame not with fight, but delight. Her hair started to swirl from the force, as his talons hit the shield. ]

Mistake.

[ A phrase so commonly used by the Woe, she can't help it. She doesn't see the hallux, and the Shield shattered, but the pieces of the shield catch the light of the sky above, and on the undersides, catch the dark of the simmering pool beneath them, the tendrils that crawled up, and reached out to grab him at his feet, and pull him down to fight with her. If he was a wizard, certainly he had something, right?

Akua didn't notice it until a moment later, that when she'd shattered the shield, something go through, and something had hit her, blossomed with blood. His hallex had caught her, she hadn't thought to consider it, and she sneered, before she took a hand, hot like molten lava, and pressed it to her stomach, as if to cauterize it, as she took a step away. ]

If you are a wizard, then fight me like a true one, instead of some feathered beast of the night. [ Her voice raw, and furious, and wracked with pain. ] Can you only attack from the sky, or are you more clever than that?