An Odd Encounter, Part Two

Without turning from the wisps of light, Suda angled her head toward Mizuno. "Yuu! Whatcha thinkin'?! Run or gun?!" she laughed nervously and burst into a cold sweat.

Mizuno gripped both her dual swords and drew them from beneath her cloak. She stood motionless, watching and waiting, seemingly appraising the threat. That threat grew when the wisps started levitating toward us.

Agawa and Kamida shouted for the sisters to back away, but they were ignored. The sisters were too enraptured by the deep blue light.

As the apparitions closed in, Ayame foolishly reached out to touch one. It drifted toward her like a moth to a very enticing flame.

It was inches away from her fingertip when a squirrel carcass flew out from behind her.

I swiveled my head to see the thrower; it was Shrug. He was sprinting toward the sisters with a look of panicked urgency.