Cunning Animus

Silax looked around and saw that the shimmer in the air was gone. Then he approached Caelrith who had begun to etch some runes in the air.

"Did you kill it?" Silax asked him when he got to the spot where the wolf had been.

"No, Animuses are quite tenacious beings. When they are knocked unconscious, they are transported back to the Astral plane. Although they do loose a huge chunk of their power, it's almost impossible to completely destroy one." Caelrith responded with a shake of the head as he etched runes in the air.

Silax decided to ask something that was bothering him and making feel dissatisfied with himself.

"How did you know that its attack with the ice shards were only meant to break down your ward, so as to letting its real attack go through."

Caelrith let out a sigh and paused what he was doing.