The Other Way

'No! That is my essence, you infernal woman!' -TDM.

'Calm down, I will find you something else to kill, there are other people here too!'

The Jet-Ax Carly held, drank in the particles, and started to shrink down into a normal-sized hammer, but more like an ice pick. Intricate lines grew up around the handle and metal, but the trigger and jet were gone. It was hard to believe that the hammer had stood two meters tall when Tilly and I first found it.

A blue circle was forming on the ground, but I looked to Latisha and started to look around, asking the other two to help us. At first, the room was normal, but then we noticed there were symbols around the edge of the room. Different combinations of circles, squares, and triangles went all the way around the large room, but they were about twenty-five centimeters wide.

"Do any of you notice anything weird about the symbols?" I asked the girls while studying them.