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This was how you got stronger, apparently.

She wasn't sure exactly how it worked, but she supposed that she was adventuring - that there were random encounters, or perhaps monsters in the tall grass that was the general supernatural jungle of Destiny City. She was also fairly certain that she shouldn't be doing this alone, but the only other magically-inclined creature she knew well enough to invite along with her was Creedence, and she was both irritated at the cat and also fairly certain that she wasn't going to be too terribly much use of something awful happened. She was, in fact, partly convinced that Creedence herself would spirit the awful happening directly into existence simply by virtue of being there, as that had seemed to be the general shape of things so far.

Given that her only other encounter with the manifestations of magical malice had led her to something like death, she had not set out that evening, in her rare state of powered up, feeling especially emboldened.

Whatever courage she had mustered had died just a few moments before, when the wind itself had seemed to coalesce into awful teeth and sharp eyes.

Wisdom told her: don't run from anything shaped like a dog.

Instinct said: ******** that and go as fast as you can.

But she had felt the pursuit, and became aware that in true movie monster fashion, the thing pursuing her was not going to give her up. So it was that in an empty parking lot covered in a thin blanket of snow, a strange senshi - looking very small - turned to face a monster that seemed to be giving chase in the form of the weather itself.

She had not yet learned to listen to the awareness in her head of others nearby, and so she thought, still, that she was alone, and in a fashion not at all befitting a protagonist, she had fallen still, neither fighting nor flying, gone pliant and paralyzed.

Looking clearly at her foe for the first time and truly seeing it, her courage failed her. She did what was natural to her, and which she had always done with a particular aplomb: she screamed.

It would have been nice to think that she would have a little quip ready about screaming and such: some snappy one-liner to throw out and look Cool about, making him understand the true and humbling power of her Sphere.

Instead she only gaped at him over her mask as he hurled magic missiles, and supplemented her stupid expression with a very stupid observation:

"Do they recruit you guys all the way over in Ireland?" she said.

Geographical ignorance aside, she did seem to at least be moved to attempt something, leveling an accusatory finger at the wolf and mumbling something under her breath. This didn't seem to do much in terms of damage, but if distraction was the aim, it wasn't wholly ineffective: the creature's visible confusion culminated in a sudden wild, piercing howl, which seemed to require all of its focus.

"Holy s**t," she said, again somewhat stupidly. "I can't believe it works on dogs."

Whether it generally worked on dogs or if this was another lucky stroke was unfortunately impossible to say. She was becoming rapidly acquainted with the fact that her powers were nothing if not unpredictable.