"Not yet," cries Lina, "Never say die! Even if you only have a one-percent chance of vict---erghh...(choke)....gasp..."
This was it. It was now or never....
Summoning all their strength, our two heroes somehow manage to wrench themselves free of Mr. T's grip. Quickly, they high-tail it out of the forest with the Dark Lord T in hot pursuit…
Suddenly, Lina remembers she's a sorceress, and that there may yet be ONE spell which is of use to her against this mohawked psycho...
She reaches down, swoops up Gourry, and takes to the air. Mr. T, who HATES flying (as all T-philes know,) can only stop his van and stare at his two desperate foes as they make their way skyward…
Soon, the sorceress and the swordsman are nothing but vanishing specks on the horizon…
A little later, in a tree not far away, a certain trickster priest is sitting and. ..well...what DOES he do in that tree all day?...…..
Xelloss watches with intense interest as an exhausted Lina ambles her way across the sky. He notices her flight pattern seems rather erratic....….
Xelloss rushes down to the side of the river to see a twisted mass of blue fabric, armor and hair floating in the water. Xel is quick to lend a hand….
Meanwhile, Lina lands safely in a clearing nearby….
