Leather was a good choice; it buys Yelena vital moments as the squirming wire ends struggle to push through the tough material or find an opening at her wrist or neck. The coil around her arm is a bigger problem as it holds her back and opens her up to attacks from the other wires that failed to snag her. Several of these reach for Cortana when she reaches Yelena's side, tendrils of rubber-coated metal wrapping around her wrists even as she tears at the thicker coil holding Yelena in place.
Those wires will snap one by one under Cortana's assault, but there are enough of them bunched together in this coil that human bone may very well snap along with them. It's not fast enough; the wires are too many to break by brute force--until Elidibus's sword cleaves them above Yelena's head. With that, Yelena is freed for the moment and the thinner coils around Cortana's arms will be easy enough to break. With the two of them so close together the wires could switch their focus to either woman in the next moments unless both immediately make a run for it--there are fewer now to contend with, but still plenty to catch and pin a single struggling person.
With his focus on Cortana, Elidibus is left open to an attack from behind. A copper wire snake strikes and lands a bite on his ankle, dulled by his ward but still painful. The first ward shatters all at once, leaving the three unprotected but for that tendril of light linking Cortana to Elidibus.
[OOC: PG, the extent of Yelena's injuries in getting freed from the coil is up to your discretion: it can be as minor as bruises or as major as broken bones or a dislocated shoulder.]
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Those wires will snap one by one under Cortana's assault, but there are enough of them bunched together in this coil that human bone may very well snap along with them. It's not fast enough; the wires are too many to break by brute force--until Elidibus's sword cleaves them above Yelena's head. With that, Yelena is freed for the moment and the thinner coils around Cortana's arms will be easy enough to break. With the two of them so close together the wires could switch their focus to either woman in the next moments unless both immediately make a run for it--there are fewer now to contend with, but still plenty to catch and pin a single struggling person.
With his focus on Cortana, Elidibus is left open to an attack from behind. A copper wire snake strikes and lands a bite on his ankle, dulled by his ward but still painful. The first ward shatters all at once, leaving the three unprotected but for that tendril of light linking Cortana to Elidibus.
[OOC: PG, the extent of Yelena's injuries in getting freed from the coil is up to your discretion: it can be as minor as bruises or as major as broken bones or a dislocated shoulder.]