Too Dark for Comfort

She hadn't disbanded from the Oros sister's house until most had gone on ahead. While she was afraid to be left alone, she did not want to be in a large band, for a large band would attract unwanted attention.

When she finally left, she moved slowly, allowing her sonar to collect as much information as possible. She moved slowly, and suddenly became aware that she was following the bright energy signal she'd seen earlier.

It was strange. The person's energy signal had gotten a little less bright. Not considerably. And anyone untrained wouldn't notice. It was just a tiny bit dimmer. Beyond the bright figure, she realized was mostly a swirl of red and black, punctuated by energy signals of what she knew was students.

Below it were swirls of blue and black. She came so that she was near him, and was startled to see fading energy signals scattered around the area. She felt a tinge of sadness, but she had expected this. She catalogged that there were several fading signals of red and black swirls. Those were the mutants, she remembered from her past encounters.

When she spoke, her soft voice seemed to shatter the silence, and she almost winced herself. "I can't entirely tell, but I'm pretty sure that this is the brooke, am I correct?" she asked the bright signal, gesturing around the area to indicate what her 'this' was.

Rami gestured absently in the direction she'd come from. "I stayed at the Oros sister's house for a little while, remembering." She tried to ignore the fading energy signals around her. "Travelling in a large group in the beginning is dangerous so I stayed behind." she explained, staring past him at the jumble of signals ahead. She was thankful she had the ability to distinguish distance. "I'm Rami." she introduced herself to the nameless signature. At least she knew it was male now.

Rami dipped her head in agreement. She saw the energy emerge from the mass, but before she could say anything, it was apparent that he'd seen, because his signal moved, and she heard him unsheath his sword.

She raised her own katana, tuning her ears to movement and using her energy signals to read them. She sighed. She would probably just be a burden, her energy reading was helpful, but she wasn't as helpful in a fight. Her sonar was only 80% accurate at the most.

"There's two more coming from my left." she warned, keeping an even eye on all energy signals now. She heard the twang of a bowstring, and she steadied her sonar in one place. She sensed the arrow just in time to move her katana up and to knock it away.

Keeping Paul occupied, three others came for Rami. She watched their signals get closer. She felt the air move and heard a sound, bringing up her katana to block whatever was coming. It met resistance, and then one of the energy signals began to fade, she tried not to wince. She'd been told they weren't human, and she knew they were evil, but she couldn't help but hate it. The signal flared again, showing she'd only caused the creature a great deal of pain.

She continued to use her sonar to block the attacks, glad the creatures at least had crude weapons for her to block with. "Alright is always relative, I'll hold out but not much else." she responded calmly, in a matter-of-fact way.

Rami continued blocking their attacks, getting a few heavy blows on her shoulders and arms, and a lighter one on her head. She could officially say that they didn't have sharp weapons. And she was glad.

She brought up her katana to block one attack and was immediately cudgeled in the ribs. She swung her elbow out, and it connected with the mutant's head, sending it tumbling backwards into the ground. Her side hurt. A lot.

She pulled away and sent a blow to another of the mutant's heads with the dull side of the katana, sending them sprawling as well. She got knocked over by the other, and she could feel it's cudgel coming down towards her. She brought her katana up to block and succeeded, though the strength of the blow did manage to knock her katana into her shoulder, leaving a long thin blue bruise almost immediately.

She kicked the mutant off and sent a hard kick to what she decided was the basic area of it's head. Judging by the way it's energy faded slightly, she guessed she was right. She scrambled to her feet, breathing heavier herself. There was one more. The one with the arrows, she assumed, but she didn't move, at the moment, the growing bruises throbbing slightly.