Rikku’s hand loosened around Yuna’s throat at the banishment from the elemental. Rather than fall back from the aura of deadly cold, the girl froze. Pleading, lucid eyes met her cousin’s, a few tears slipping out the corners only to crystalize instantaneously. Rikku had managed to claw her way to the surface, just barley, yet all she could do was freeze. So she’d use that for all it was worth, by taking on as much damage as possible.

Please.

Trembling as her nose, ears and cheeks quickly turned from red to black under the supernatural cold, her breath fogged from cracking lips. “Yu…”

Her awareness faded before she could complete the word, yet the creature did not leap back immediately. Noting how its enemy cared for the body it inhabited, it stared Yuna down as it allowed a few more precious moments to destroy its vessel while she watched. A slight grin spread on ruined lips as it called down dark firaga in secret, the show of ruining Rikku's body further a diversion from the casting, the stranger lept away at the last moment as a black wall of fire rained down from overhead.