The still-circling Cindara was caught head-on by Seraphina and Ataneya.
Seraphina pressed down from above, pinning her.
Ataneya's fox tails wrapped wings and limbs, then whipped Cindara into the wall.
BOOM!
Stone exploded.
They didn't stop.
A slam.
A bind.
Another wall impact.
They used almost every trick they had—grappling, wrapping, shoulder-checking, smashing her into rock again and again.
But Cindara never truly counterattacked with her body.
She folded her wings in front of herself, wrapping her entire form tight, curling into a compact ball—like some unfinished evolutionary stage.
No one could tell what she was doing inside.
Phoenix Queen Ignara took the opening to carry Ethan up above Cindara.
Ethan watched for a moment, judged the timing, then jumped from Ignara's back.
Seraphina saw him dropping and adjusted her claw.
She slapped the round, curled-up Cindara straight into the wall, embedding her between layers of stone so she couldn't keep rolling.
