Slamlander wrote:
You know, all the posts today have one thing in common, this one doesn't act like Sarine. Sarine wouldn't have done it that way and she certainly wouldn't have expected Jon to handle Sara, knowing how Jon is about magic. There is, hopefuly, something else going on here.
I can't for the life of me figure out why everyone is saying this.
1) She went into the battle feeling cocky because she trained the Ensigerum's founders. That, coupled with the fact that she's an Elf and basically has a superiority complex <i>hard-coded into her genes</i>*, regardless of what she may say, makes her comments at the beginning of the battle make sense to me.
2) It can't be Ellis, unless Sarine can transform him and then mentally dominate him remotely so that she can use the body to respond to Warrel. Note, in particular, the part a couple of strips back where she informs Jon that the weapons are elven made. Ellis wouldn't know all of this shit.
3) Everyone seems terribly surprised that she's getting her ass kicked by a human. Keep in mind that the human can move 20 times faster than even she can, and he's healed himself of Jon's shotgun wound.
4) Everyone assumes that Sarine saw all the crazy time ninja-ing when Jon was getting his ass kicked. Here's a thought: What if she didn't? She was looking at Jon when he fired the rifle, so it's possible she only heard the sound of the bullet being knocked away and didn't see how the time ninja blocked it. She was over on the ledge next to Jon in the next strip, but I doubt she got there before the bullet made its way to the target. Warrel didn't jump out of the blast so much as just jump and get blown away by the shockwave. He landed on his feet, but I don't think he time-magic'd his way out of that. He also jumped straight up to Jon, but that part wasn't time magic either, and by this time Sarine has vanished along with Ellis. Perhaps she went to the roof, then came back for Jon. This means she didn't see <i>any</i> time magic until that bastard started tearing her apart.
*She's not as bad as her superiors, of course, but she still has it.