The shaft creature dropped between Juna and Bren's opening as all six bands turned around it.
Juna crossed beneath the first two edges before its pale body reached the floor. Her claws struck one cracked plate, threw the creature sideways, and three bands buried themselves around her landing point.
Hajin opened one Ring around his right forearm and sent the Chain through the remaining gap. Divine Bind caught the lowest band before it could close around Juna's waist.
The chamber brightened while the two of them fought inside its geometry, every carved circle watching the exchange like a held eye. Neither fighter could spare any attention for the watching walls.
The link pulled tight and stopped several hundred pounds of rotating metal without moving Hajin's right arm. Purple light entered the four grafted fittings as the creature reversed every other band toward him.
'It is stronger when the fittings answer together, but the damage makes each response less exact.'
