Culling

"It escaped," said Matron looking at the space it had been. I sighed and made my shields disappear.

"It won't be able to next time," I said as I carefully stored what I had collected; next time, this trick will not work, no matter how great the power behind it is.

When it comes to teleporting, delicateness requires, not overwhelming, power. I am sure I will be to do interference with the power I have, but whether I will remain alive till then is a completely different question together.

"It might have escaped, but there are still some that are alive," said Kevin, and a third of the eyes of the monkey on its shoulder has shone, and the broke space stabilized, which he tore and disappeared.

Others, too, begin to disappear, joining the fight against the four remaining videttes till only Matron and I have remained.