The moment the sky darkened, Kassie glanced up with a grimace and then suddenly exploded with motion. She leaped backwards, into the sky, dodging the pillar of lightning by a hair's breadth.
The impact that was wrenched open the moment the lightning struck the ground hit her and destroyed her flow, causing her to roll through the air and fall on the snow.
Still before falling, Kassie took an impossible spin with her entire body and landed on her leg, staggering back several paces before stabbing her sword into the snow and finally stopping.
A fog of snow had obscured the area where Kassie had rolled out from. Her gaze was sick there now, with an unreadable expression on her face. There were several shallow cuts across her body but none of them seemed to bother her one beat.
In that moment though, Kassie's armor stretched forward, with a fluid movement, it crawled over her explosed skin forming a second body over her.
