985 Only Human

Coraline Heartsong had more-or-less accepted her death or otherwise state of super-severe maybe-dying-would-be-better injury. But then Zash arrived. 

So... maybe death wasn't a 100% guarantee? 

The dragon breathed. 

Zash stood fast, holding her shield out. She activated the protective runes engraved on its inside, then stacked two defensive layers behind it. 

--and that was about the time Coraline realized that Zash had not, in fact, conjured Absorption-Type formations... nor Dispersion-Type ones. 

The magical barriers she quick-cast and reinforced... belonged to the Deflection-Type category. 

Thus, it turned one screaming elf and one unreasonably reckless human into a fast and fiery ball of death, hurtling through space, smashing into this building and that building.