[ Ori feels the swell of a small victory as she watches the spear pierce the Noctaere, although the feeling is short-lived as it prepares another attack. The moment that she sees it nock another arrow and drawing the bowstring back, her eyes go wide - even moreso when she realizes that it's aiming at her.
This is far from the first time that Ori has had arrows pointed at her. It wouldn't even be the first time that she would be hit by arrows. These things just happen, and more often than not she doesn't mind taking the blow. But she's just seen how these arrows have turned people into some kind of horrible red-eyed wraith, and that is an outcome she finds she would really like to avoid.
There isn't much time to act, however, and when the arrow is let loose, there's but a split second in which she hears Balthus call out and sees him dash towards her from the corner of her eyes, and in which she thinks, she needs a shield. But conjuring another wall of vines would not be fast enough - so she draws on a recent memory of somebody protecting her with a shield of flames, and that's precisely what her dreamotion manifests into just before the arrow reaches her. ]
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This is far from the first time that Ori has had arrows pointed at her. It wouldn't even be the first time that she would be hit by arrows. These things just happen, and more often than not she doesn't mind taking the blow. But she's just seen how these arrows have turned people into some kind of horrible red-eyed wraith, and that is an outcome she finds she would really like to avoid.
There isn't much time to act, however, and when the arrow is let loose, there's but a split second in which she hears Balthus call out and sees him dash towards her from the corner of her eyes, and in which she thinks, she needs a shield. But conjuring another wall of vines would not be fast enough - so she draws on a recent memory of somebody protecting her with a shield of flames, and that's precisely what her dreamotion manifests into just before the arrow reaches her. ]