[ This is all just a memory says Jim over and through the blistering wind and Stephen's already dour expression folds into a somehow deeper frown. It's already happened.
No shit he knows the way out. The way out is the spell he's trying to claw out of nothing, that keeps slipping through his shaking fingers like water. Water. You can't beat a river into submission...
He steels himself. The frantic, panicked wafting of his arm steadies, stills as he settles in. Stance wide, grounding arm fixed in place. One deep breath, two, shutting out the howl of the wind and the burning of the cold and the pressure of the predicament, clearing his mind to form a better picture of the courtyard at Kamar-Taj - safety.
And when he raises his casting arm again, starts to move it through the air, the sparks that form stay, root themselves in the air and being to form a line. It's shaky, not quite stable yet, but something's happening where nothing was before, a circle of power starting to wobble into hesitant existence in the Everest air. ]
Be ready! You see anything on the other side, go!
[ He's not sure this is really going to work. But even if it only works for a second, it should be enough to get at least one of them out of this. ]
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No shit he knows the way out. The way out is the spell he's trying to claw out of nothing, that keeps slipping through his shaking fingers like water. Water. You can't beat a river into submission...
He steels himself. The frantic, panicked wafting of his arm steadies, stills as he settles in. Stance wide, grounding arm fixed in place. One deep breath, two, shutting out the howl of the wind and the burning of the cold and the pressure of the predicament, clearing his mind to form a better picture of the courtyard at Kamar-Taj - safety.
And when he raises his casting arm again, starts to move it through the air, the sparks that form stay, root themselves in the air and being to form a line. It's shaky, not quite stable yet, but something's happening where nothing was before, a circle of power starting to wobble into hesitant existence in the Everest air. ]
Be ready! You see anything on the other side, go!
[ He's not sure this is really going to work. But even if it only works for a second, it should be enough to get at least one of them out of this. ]