All the Awakened but the Titania suddenly disengaged from Lith and pulled away. He recalled the Golems and, with their help, blocked all ten blades, giving his damaged body and armor a brief moment of respite to recover.
"I wouldn't get too excited, if I were you." Lith couldn't see Zakra's face while she was in her wreath form, but he could tell from her voice that she was smiling.
Lith looked around with four of his eyes, keeping the other three fixed on the Titania. Several powerful arrays were taking form above, below, and around him in a death trap. Escape would have been possible, but not with Zakra right in front of him.
If he ran, she would stab him in the back. If he stayed there, the arrays would have ripped them both to shreds, yet Lith didn't have the regenerative abilities of a Titania. He would die, and Valeron with him.
It was a lose-lose situation.
If Lith had been caught unprepared, that was.
