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"Are you certain you're up for this?" It was a question she didn't want to answer herself. Mentally she was ready, but her tailbone still ached the slightest bit, and the only thing keeping her elbow from bruising had to be Armagnac.

"And you'll let me know if you need anything this time?" The look she sent in Jake's direction was one of 'I know you won't want to, but you should'. "I didn't grab a new supply of things for my own health, okay."

Sherry was fairly certain she'd be fine, her job had a lot of watching and yelling and a bit of technical stuff, but Jake's was much more dangerous in her opinion. And that was the only reason she was wary about this. Now that she knew more about why he was so determined to hunt these things... His stubborn streak could do him in with this. She had a feeling he'd hunt them until he dropped from exhaustion or worse. Which was why she wasn't about to let him go hunting alone or with some random hunter. As long as he was with her, she could be certain he'd get some rest sooner or later.

This titan seemed a little rowdier than the last, and so he had trouble securing his cord.
Huffing, he retrieved his equipment, making sure none of it was damaged. Ok, so far, so good.

"Sherry, you might want to stand back."

Taking a running start, he took the throttle handles in his hands and jumped, giving himself an extra burst into the air. He just had to hold up his end, and then Sherry could do her part. If he failed even this...

... no, he could do this.
Concentrating, he maneuvered around the titan, managing to find an unguarded spot and landed, wasting no time in securing his harnesses to it.

"Ok, your turn!"

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HP: 45/50

While Jake had to keep it busy, she had to keep an eye on him. Easy enough. She'd practiced this enough by this point.

"Keep an eye on things! But so far, looks like you're good!" Nothing sparking, and though the beast was a little bit thrashy, it wasn't too bad. They would have this one down in no time, surely. Hopefully.

"It's all yours now!" More or less.

Defending Jake for: 8
HP: 50/50

Of course Sherry would hold back in a spar. Having a dead Jake on her hands would be a terrible thing. And of course a Titan would not be holding back, whatever their goal for being on the island was it wasn’t to be nice to the little human residents of the island. Which was why Sherry was taking her job so seriously. Even if her weapon still thought it was a waste of time.

“Keep your head in the game, Jake!” She couldn’t quite tell, but he almost seemed to be hesitating. “You can handle this! We’ve taken down a few of these things before! This one will be no different!” Hopefully. They’d had a pretty good run so far, even with her getting knocked out that one time. “Come on!”

Defending Jake for: 3
HP: 50/50

If Sherry knew what was going on in Jake’s mind she would have tried to do something about it. Sadly, she didn’t know. She only knew that he stumbled, and then recovered. Which may have been for the best, for there was likely nothing she could say that would make Jake’s inner worries easier on him. It was maybe best that Sherry didn’t know at all.

But that was neither here nor there.

“Watch it!” She said, before she realized it wasn’t really all that helpful of a thing to say. “We got this!” She really should just hush, since she really had nothing helpful to say right at that moment. The beast was just trying to bumble around and the anchor was holding strong. So far so good, she surmised.


Defending Jake for: 3
HP: 50/50

She had an inkling that Jake’s mental musings often ended up in places of trouble. That’s not to say her own never did, but at least she had Armagnac to point out when she was thinking herself into trouble. Usually. Armagnac had been keeping a lot of opinions to herself as of late. Sherry couldn’t quite blame her, she knew what it was like to be angry at someone and have them not budge on the topic that was causing the rift. She only hoped sooner or later they’d come to a point where they did not disagree so very much.



Thank you. Sherry was just glad Armagnac had stopped constantly calling for blood and death. She was glad that Armagnac seemed willing to change her opinion, much as she had before. Slowly and maybe, but it was better than nothing. There was still a lot of hate oozing from her weapon, though. Exhausting as ever. You two just need time.



I am sure you can. Out loud she yelled, “Spike! Behind you! Sparks!” At least sparking spikes were easy to spot, usually.


Defending Jake for: 5
HP: 50/50

Not helpful. Sherry almost rolled her eyes, but then she almost smirked. The emotion that came with her weapon’s words was not purely hate or anything. Annoyance was something Sherry could deal with. Now, if you don’t mind, I do need to focus a little. Wouldn’t it be sad if we were all eaten?

How much of that she thought was a good thing, the weapon kept to herself.

Nodding to no one who could actually see it, Sherry did her best to put all of her focus on the titan, the runic gear, and the death hunter doing what he could to distract the beast. “Nice!” she said of Jake’s dodge. “Keep an eye on that one!”

Defending Jake for: 5
HP: 50/50