Lei had thusfar
not had good experience with piles of stone, animated by magic or not. That contributed to her sudden shift of mood-- in one moment, she was having fun with this friendly big big big dragon who had appeared, and in the next, there were scary rock creatures that wanted to steal her stone. Why did they have to come and ruin a perfectly good investigation of water?
Ordinarily she'd've enjoyed getting scooped up by the big friendly dragon, and there
was a bit of surprised joy in the shriek-laugh she made at being so lifted, but it was quickly distracted by scary-rock-creatures-coming-closer. Scary
mean rock creatures.
"Why do they want our stones?" she asked, safer where she was perched on Baratheon's face.
She shrieked with joy again when the dragon spat energy at the golems below, blasting off one of their arms-- she had nothing so powerful or useful. But the blast only made one pause, and that made her hunker down low again, scared once more.
"Oh no- why is it still moving?" she asked, in a smaller voice; this was not going far to convince her that rock piles of any kind were remotely positive forces. First one had fallen on her, requiring the assistance of a stranger, and now two were attacking her and
another friendly stranger.
Did the earth, as a whole, object to her meeting people?
There wasn't really much Lei could do offensively (which would likely remain the case for some time); she was a gentle soul, leaning more towards healing than battle, and the way that manifested at such a young age was a total lack of offensive spells. She could drink of the air, and she could eat of the water, and those were the only two magical knowledges that had thusfar imposed themselves into her brain. Neither of them seemed very useful in this instance, but she reached inside herself regardless, pulling at her Absorb Nutrients spell, aiming it at the golems.
She wasn't really sure what, exactly, she was hoping it would do-- they were stone, after all, and it would be all the weaker for being some short distance away-- but it's not like any of the other options were any more useful. She was wise enough to know that a lion cub wasn't going to make much a dent in the rocks through physical means, and would likely just be in Baratheons' way should he try to use his own more useful offenses, and the stones weren't likely to notice the dip in humidity that accompanied an airdrink spell.
Useless as the idea probably was in theory, it was even more useless in practice: in her fear, the absorb nutrients spell backfired,
"Ohhh." she said uncomfortably, as she did the opposite of absorb nutrients-- she expelled nutrients, primarily through the same magical miasma means through which the spell usually worked, only in the
wrong direction. Baratheon and the Golems might've felt stronger for it, though. Lei hunkered down lower, the world spinning slightly as the sensation of Vertigo made itself known. With the nausea she was feeling, if she wasn't careful, she was going to expel nutrients through a more conventional means-- her mouth.
((Aaaahaaaa poor Lei. CRITFAILS. Also, already mentioned it in the cbox but doing again here-- next round, Briar should post before me since it makes more sense for Baratheon to be acting primarily in a combat-esque situation~))
@baratheon @Game Master Schafear