[ The thing about super speed? It tends to only work if you can actually move. Which Valmont suddenly finds he can't do. At all. What did the boy just - ]
Wh- Let me go! [ He can't even struggle, though it's not for lack of trying. And oh no, that is the ground coming up very fast, isn't it -
His head bounces off the pavement with a solid thunk. It's a very good thing for him that the horse talisman doesn't need conscious thought to activate, because he would have been in no state to think for a while. As it is, however, the talisman does begin working as soon as he's injured, patching up that little concussion. He should be fine in a minute... but in the meantime, he's wide open to anything else Nagi should wish to throw at him. ]
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Wh- Let me go! [ He can't even struggle, though it's not for lack of trying. And oh no, that is the ground coming up very fast, isn't it -
His head bounces off the pavement with a solid thunk. It's a very good thing for him that the horse talisman doesn't need conscious thought to activate, because he would have been in no state to think for a while. As it is, however, the talisman does begin working as soon as he's injured, patching up that little concussion. He should be fine in a minute... but in the meantime, he's wide open to anything else Nagi should wish to throw at him. ]