Morgan lets out a breath.

Then she dials and calls her scheduler to say that the rest of the day needs to be rescheduled to another time. Her scheduler probably guesses why, but doesn't ask the question and instead just calmly agrees and wishes her luck. This is why she hired this person.

She gets a cup of coffee and downs it so she can be assured she's at her most awake. She removes all of the items she won't be needing to fight Behemoth, ie, most of them, and leaves them in a tidy pile in her apartment. Cellphone included, once she's gotten the text.

And then she waits for the text itself.

It takes two minutes. There are coordinates.

Getting there takes seven seconds. She had to put the coffee cup in the sink.

It is not a city yet but there is a city in the distance. The coordinates don't make it obvious which city it is other than "somewhere in southwestern Asia."

And there's this big-ass rock monster.

And Eidolon's there.

She nods at him.

"Powers in yet?"

"Have one for dealing with vacuum, one for communication there, and one offensive power."

"Radiation too?" she confirms. "Just protection against vacuum won't be enough against getting seared to a crisp. Not even from Behemoth, space is nasty."

"Yes."

Nod.

"Had to be sure. Ready to go kill the bastard?"

"Let's go."

She smiles, and then they are on their way to space, dragging Behemoth behind. They are well out of his radius of bullshit. She did her homework.

Are there going to be any problems on the way to the designated battlefield?

There don't seem to. Behemoth looks at them.

She gets them a decent distance from Earth. It feels much faster during the short time they ascend out of Earth's atmosphere, even though she speeds up once they're safely out of it. Things start looking very slow when all of your ways of measuring relative speed are very far away.

Then, when Earth looks about the size of a dime: Okay, this is a decent distance. I soften him up and you see if your offensive power can capitalize on it?

"Yes—"

They suddenly feel immense amounts of acceleration towards the monster.

No.

And now it's acceleration away from it!

Consider, Behemoth, this eloquent post script on her earlier essay:

No.

Morgan raises her eyebrows slightly, unimpressed. She's fought other fairies, Behemoth. Welcome to the big leagues. Eidolon is not getting accelerated. He is going to be constantly moving at precisely the same velocity as Behemoth at all times. But since Behemoth wants to play, they can play.

Morgan suddenly feels immense amounts of acceleration towards the monster.

The monster distorts space to the point that time starts passing funny. She's still accelerating towards him, just—somewhat less than she expects to.

Neat.

And what if she moves everyone very quickly to the left (accounting for whiplash for Eidolon), Behemoth included? Does his space distortion follow?

Not... exactly... The space distortion is tridimensional and around Behemoth in all directions, but somewhat chaotic, so the gravitational effects make it very confusing to understand what exactly she means by "move Eidolon" and "move Behemoth". There is a certain lag involved in it which she's not accustomed to, and light's acting all funny, being lensed this way and that.

Ah-huh.

She backs away from Behemoth to get away from the space distortion. Instead, she distracts him by ripping parts off of him. That seems like it would distract him a little. Also, fuck you, Behemoth.

General relativity is on my shit list. Ideas for handling this gravity well? My aim's being thrown off and I don't want him to try something sneaky while I'm being introduced to Einstein's theories personally.

I could probably come up with a power to counteract his, but I'd have to sacrifice either the offense or the communication to do it.

How good's the offensive power? I can try softening him up more from range before you try switching anything, see if it has any impact, I just don't think it's safe for me to get close to him while he's doing this.