"Highly Flammable." The cooked corpse of the creature had ignited with very little effort, just a simple flick of her wrist and it was screaming and burning. The other three that had been hunting her, had pulled back, waiting instead to try and get the drop on her however they could with how they smelled. The highly Flammable thing was something Trezlan had figured out, these creatures burned like they were made of oil, it was weird to say the least. She hadn't used the fire previously, just necromancy, unlike Trezlan she wasn't as gifted in it, the fire just a lingering ability from him and not one she was born with. To be fair she hadn't even been born at all.
Tolviar had backed into one of the more complete looking rooms. It smelled like mildew and looked like the last time the sheets had been washed was before the Red War, but she at least didn't see an obvious hole one of the creatures could lash out at her from. At least that was what she thought until a taloned hand snatched her from under the floor. The claws burned on her legs as she smashed through the floor into the room below, and then the floor boards there gave way and she crashed another floor to hard concrete. The impact popped her left shoulder out of its socket, the pain immediate.
The creature that pulled her through the floor fell upon her with its claws and teeth. She at least anticipated the attack so instead of it eating her it ran face first into her boots. The creature's neck cracked loud and it laid on the ground twitching. If it wasn't dead yet, it would be soon. Tolviar got to her feet just in time for another of the beasts to descend from above. She cursed that she'd left her weapons in the room now two stories above her, but she did have fire and necromancy, though Trezlan's memories indicated necromancy wasn't that useful against the creatures.
She tried to burn it, but between its superior position and her hurt shoulder the fire missed. The creature lashed out and connected on her injured arm, she could feel some kind of toxin mixing with her blood and knew that things were not going very good. But the contact with her flesh worked both ways. With a tissue connection Tolviar had the fire leap from her body into the creature, it writhed backwards on to its twitching companion which caught that creature on fire and in its flailing caught the rest of the room on fire.
Tolviar had to chuckle, there was one remaining creature, her shoulder was messed up, and the room was on fire. If there was a more Lorentino thing in the whole world she did not know what it could be.
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