Kinimi shrunk to her human form, the beam of Ether shooting past way over her head, stretching to the thinness of a hair, leaving a streak of tiny drops of dew in the air, like a jet of sparkling red spray.
Kinimi's reliable strategy to save her neck had worked once again. The only downside: it wouldn't work again—not against Ixa, anyway. By the looks of her, Kinimi wasn't even sure if it had worked against the Scavenger Chief—in catching her off guard and wasting her Ether.
Ixa lowered her hands, expression vacant as always. "What now, Traitor?" she said flatly. "You know you're useless in this form. It'll of course take Amassed Ether to use your Augmentskill. So by transforming back to your human form, you're the one who just wasted her Ether."
