"S-Sofia!!", her lover's immediate reaction not in any way surprising though Alisa's eyes widened in any case as the girl plunged her hands deep inside the hole, taking hold of the sculptress' wrist just as her crumbling handhold gave way entirely.
That touch always felt like the most soothing, reassuring sensation she'd ever experience, yet now more than ever it filled her with dread at the thought of the beautiful mermaid getting reeled back in. Desperate to free herself and Sofia from its grasp, she pulled back on the snared hand, hoping to finish what her spell started and free herself... But while he had indeed weakened the enemy's grip on her, preventing it from following up, she came no closer to properly cutting herself free. But her strain had ultimately achieved little beyond weakening her grip even further, making her position all the more precarious with every passing moment.
"I swear, when I get my hands on you...", growled the sculptress, using the leverage on her almost painfully stretched arms to simply kick at the conjured crystal arm, cracking and chipping it, but not really getting any closer to breaking it in record time.
Yet an eerie, unsettling sound soon made itself heard, all around them the portal grew increasingly unstable, and once more Alisa's eyes turned those beautiful blue jewels right in front of her. All of a sudden this whole situation had turned into quite the predicament, with the portal tightening and threatening to collapse at any moment. To make matters worse, the free flowing mana of her demon slayer magic kept growing wilder by the second, the crystalline brandings on her skin creeping up all across her body. How long did she have until Abyssal mana started infecting her lover too? Sighing as a soft smile drew on her face, Alisa shook her head, loosening the grip on her hand, intending to let go of her lifeline:
"Let go, Sofia...", all of a sudden the passionate tone had all but faded. Alisa knew when she had lost a battle, and knew that to win the war, the sooner she accepted it the better. Indeed there might be a certain merit to clawing and biting your way to victory, but no way she'd do it at the expense of her beloved Sofia, "It's too late... The portal could close at any second, and if you're caught between both dimensions... I'm not letting that happen."
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Mana used: 2225 (minus discount)
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