She nodded. "Don't worry, I know."
"Just don't be afraid. You can do this." Nyancelot attempted to reassure her. He had seen first-hand her ability to nullify magical phenomena. "I'm not sure, but I hope so." The hovercraft had finally gotten close to the rift, and Yu could hear the cries and screams of the spirits around it. "It's time." The craft got close enough, and Yu had taken a deep breath.
"Here I go." She closed her eyes, and tried to concentrate on the rift as she had done the other times. She could feel her body being affected by the power emanating from it, and the sensation was stronger than ever. She felt dizzy, and the cries and screams were so loud and deafening that she had to cover her ears and try to drown them out. "It's no good. I can't concentrate like this!" But she had to, and Yu could sense that the longer she spent there, the more she was going to lose control. "I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid!" The hovercraft started moving away from the rift as one of the scientists suddenly called out. "Wait, slow the craft! It's working! the rift is losing in energy!"
As soon as Yu had heard the man speak, her focus was broken and the rift had regained its original shape, size and energy output.
"We're too far. We need to get closer, I'll try again!" The hovercraft went back and as Yu tried to focus and reach out, attempting to envision a wave of water like the ocean surrounding the rift to forcefully close it, the girl suddenly felt as if something, or someone was gazing straight at her soul from within the rift. Her eyes suddenly widened in shock, sweat running down her face as if she had come face to face with a terror beyond words. But even worse was the fact she could no longer hear the spirits, or feel anything when it came to magic. Had the rift just devoured her magic? "It's not a matter of distance, it's the rift itself!"
"Yu, we're retreating!" Nyancelot called out worried to Yu, The girl was so frightened she didn't even notice the craft had left the vicinity of the rift. As if to make matters worse the exhaustion of attempting to close the rift had taken its toll upon her body, causing the girl to collapse while the Exceed called out to her: "Yu?! Yu!!!"
WC: 420
Total WC: 645/1200