istandwithmycancelledwife: (bit more than you d anticipated this)
Kalim Al-Asim ([personal profile] istandwithmycancelledwife) wrote in [community profile] thenashira 2025-06-08 12:01 am (UTC)

"Huh? I –" But Nova Sunbeam is spared trying to reply to that by that high note and a scattering of broken glass landing on his bare shoulder. He jerks back around to face GNMS, frightened but resolute. Mirage Flare is all he has, and it can't really damage this opponent, only confuse her and obscure him and Jamil from her sight. But... 

Is it just him, or does she look kind of faded...?

He glances back at the projection box. Kalim isn't any kind of expert on this sort of thing, but there are a couple of home cinemas at his family's estate. He remembers asking his dad once, when he was a little kid, why they couldn't have the lights on while they watched a movie together, and getting an explanation he didn't fully understand but which amounted to the idea that it would drown out the light of the projection.

He grips his staff. Jamil still isn't moving. He has to try.

"Mirage flare!"

The sunlight in the theatre intensifies, almost blinding, from everywhere and nowhere at once. It becomes impossible to see the image on the screen – and, ridiculously, that does GNMS in. The monster possessing the actress's image can't maintain its presence without something to tether to, apparently. Half-obscured by the shimmer of the mirage, she fades from view with a musical wail.

Nova Sunbeam exhales. With a shimmer of light, Kalim is back to his normal self, and the harsh sunlight that filled the theatre disappears. His arms fall to his sides as he stares, overwhelmed, at the empty screen.

Then the sprinklers come on.

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