Luka could certainly ask them to stop doing that, but he was about to be privy to a particularly unpleasant sequence of events all at once. He'd never been in the position he was about to be in, and his previous experiences were too mild and tame to really give him a picture of how intertwined with things he actually was.
The fire he'd been able to pull up from the ground, for example, wasn't a fluke.
As Gyre rushes Twelve, three of her eyes snap down to his advancing strike. The first locks on his extended bow, mere inches from her body, and it stops. Like a hand grabbing hold of the tip of it, it's held firmly in place in midair. Luka will be treated to a flash of exactly what that eye is focusing on, just for a moment.
But that isn't all, because the second eye is locked on Gyre's shoulder. Like an invisible hand grabbing him and stopping him like an adult does to a child, he's held. A second after the first image, Luka is assaulted by this one.
The same happens a second later as the third eye locks on Gyre's torso and he gets held in place. Three massive holds on his body, three flashes in Luka's brain, three impossible actions of magic.
And if they remember previous years, they'll remember tales from the previous heroes trying to describe Twelve as a "monster playing chess with everyone and everything on the field" but never really explaining what they'd meant.
Being here, now? This is what they meant.
Off to the side, Six is watching wide-eyed with fascination. He wishes he could do that! Eight, meanwhile, has nothing to contribute to this nonsense taking place.
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The fire he'd been able to pull up from the ground, for example, wasn't a fluke.
As Gyre rushes Twelve, three of her eyes snap down to his advancing strike. The first locks on his extended bow, mere inches from her body, and it stops. Like a hand grabbing hold of the tip of it, it's held firmly in place in midair. Luka will be treated to a flash of exactly what that eye is focusing on, just for a moment.
But that isn't all, because the second eye is locked on Gyre's shoulder. Like an invisible hand grabbing him and stopping him like an adult does to a child, he's held. A second after the first image, Luka is assaulted by this one.
The same happens a second later as the third eye locks on Gyre's torso and he gets held in place. Three massive holds on his body, three flashes in Luka's brain, three impossible actions of magic.
And if they remember previous years, they'll remember tales from the previous heroes trying to describe Twelve as a "monster playing chess with everyone and everything on the field" but never really explaining what they'd meant.
Being here, now? This is what they meant.
Off to the side, Six is watching wide-eyed with fascination. He wishes he could do that! Eight, meanwhile, has nothing to contribute to this nonsense taking place.