Yuri felt a heat emanating from behind her. She turns around, holding her climbing picks at the ready. The creature materializes with Val still in its grasp. Yuri lunges at the creature again, and it dissipates into smoke, reforming behind Yuri. A limb lashes out from the demon and slashes Yuri’s back. Yuri stumbles to her knees. The wound stings, but it does not bleed. The heat of the attack had cauterized the wound already. Yuri charges again, and the same thing happens. Dissipate, reform, slash.