It dropped from thirty-five metres with the wings shut.
Halfway down it opened them and committed — and the instant its line locked, four things happened in about a second and a half.
`[MAEVE CALLAHAN — HEXLIGHT BRAND APPLIED]`
The violet ring went onto the left wing root.
`[CILLIAN WARD — LIGHTNING IMPACT]`
He had been holding it for four minutes and he put all of it into the mark, and the wing folded in the middle of the descent.
`[AELLO — HP: 19,600 → 16,400]`
The dive became a fall.
It came down thirty metres short of the wagon with the left wing not working and hit the road at an angle, and it was still trying to climb out of it — and Finn Hale, who had spent two minutes standing four metres away looking bored, was on the wing before it got off the ground.
Both axes into the brand.
`[AELLO — HP: 16,400 → 13,500]`
It got about three metres up and came down again.
`[AELLO — HP: 13,500 → 12,700]`
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