Sandra had thought of a few ways the fight might start, but she had not once expected Pate to rip off a strip from his robe and tie it around his eyes as his two opponents charged him. The disciples hadn't waited for him and one had formed a blade of darkness around a hand while the other had used a technique that had lengthened his shadow before a copy of himself had appeared from it, matching his movements. It was a complex technique and the disciple must have had practice with it, though she could tell it was not that durable, and with what Zirani had taught her, she saw more than a dozen ways to improve it.
Instead of using a large amount of aether to create the copy, the disciple had a link that was constantly draining aether, not to mention that with the way the technique was, he wouldn't be able to change anything about the copy. No morphing limbs or changing shape.
'That's a good idea. Need to remember that.'
