The ward flashes green as a massive claw punches through the tunnel wall just beyond the boundary. Stone groans, dust sifts down, and Bracken throws themself back from the breach.
The Elder Knight
Blade up. It is not attacking, it is fleeing.
The first dragon feels the sanctuary line strain. Beyond the tearing hole, something heavier moves in the dark, close enough to rattle the rock again. The eggs lie behind him, and the knights wait for his choice.
Bracken
It is coming from deeper in. If that thing breaks through, it will reach the nest.
The Elder Knight holds his sword level with the clawed limb, but does not strike. The newborn dragon stirs at the warded alcove, while the green seam brightens, asking whether the sanctuary will widen or hold.
The Scarred Knight
Decide, then. Keep the line, or take the refugee in and close the gap behind it.
✓ Quest Accepted
Shock the intruder
“I climb the static in the air into shocking the target”
SUCCESS (Superb Electric offensive, rolled +1)
The first dragon climbs the charge in the air and releases it in one clean strike. Green-white static leaps through the broken wall, and the hidden thing beyond jerks hard in the dark.
Dust bursts from the breach. The clawed limb spasms and goes slack just outside the sanctuary line, scraping stone as the pressure behind it falters.
Bracken
That stopped it.
The ward seam steadies, then flares brighter where the shock meets it, as if the sanctuary itself drinks the force and holds.
The Elder Knight
Hold there. It felt that.
Inside the ward, the newborn dragon lifts its head at the crackling light. Beyond the torn wall, the deeper presence shifts back, no longer pressing the boundary.
The Scarred Knight
The line stands. But something has learned it is here.
Quest Complete
Shock the intruder