Recovery

Sael leaned his head back against the stone wall behind him.  Eventually, silence caused him to open his eyes once again.  Everyone was watching him with expectant looks. "Ok, let us start over but one at a time." 

"What happened?" Erica asked simply. 

"I was talking to Undine… No Selkie. The one we had captured. Then Jess walked in, only it wasn't Jess but the real Undine in disguise. Then she attacked me, with one of Jess's new weapons. The prisoner… Selkie I guess… took the first attack for me.  That gave me time to armor up.  But, Undine escaped.  I might have gotten her though.  But I can't be sure.  She has some sort of power, she cut right through my Shadow Hold when I tried to capture her.  I… We think she has some sort of spatial or dimensional powers as well.  Probably how she got in."  Sael leaned over to glance back into the cell at the weapon Undine had discarded.  'Jess really outdid herself on this one.'  Then he frowned. 'How did they…'