Michael dodged backward as the silver winged creature threw another dive-propelled javelin at him. It was female, that was the only conclusion he could make given its state of undress, and roughly one and a half times his size. She had long blue hair that was woven into thick braids and her ebon skin was marked with tattoos the same silver as her wings. Michael found her beautiful even as she dove toward him with her talons extended towards his face.He raised his shield and placed several barriers in front of it to slow her momentum. The move succeeded and as she broke through two of his summoned barriers he smashed at her leg with his mace, managing to connect. There was a loud crack as Ruin connected and she shrieked as she attempted to regain altitude and get some distance from him. Unfortunately for her, Ser Lound was already thundering in their direction with his lance extended and he impaled her through her side with it before releasing the lance and directing his horse to trample over one of the lizardmen that was making a run for it.With her gone Michael ran toward the rift. It was hanging about ten feet in the air and another of the harpies emerged from it even as he got close enough to begin wrapping his will around it. As he clutched it, the harpy turned her attention to him, but before she could even prepare to dive a bolt of lightning hit her, courtesy of Ollie.Surprisingly, she didn’t fall from it, but instead her tattoos briefly lit and began glowing, then dissipated. Luckily, she was incapacitated while her tattoos did whatever it was that they were doing which gave Ser Blake time to leap up and grab her by the talon. She was far heavier in her full armor than the harpy was and so was able to slam her onto the hard ground below with enough force to shatter a number of her bones before she finished her off with a powerful stab of her spear.Ollie had somehow found himself in an aerial battle with two of the harpies at (...)