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Maxine's head shot up at the sound of the explosion. Instinctively, she stretched her arms out to keep her fellow prisoners from launching forward. Her eyes widened as a giant wall of ice rose only feet from the front of the carriage. It was like an out of body experience as she watched the leading Necromancers crumble to the ground. Maxine had to force herself to exhale, situating within the cage.

She barely caught a glimpse of a person darting alongside the carriage, before she could feel the binding spell lift. "Brace yourselves." Maxine ordered to the girls as they still sat upon the benches. They knew this warning well, and lifted their legs to tuck their heads down between them for protection. Maxine took in a deep breath as she extended both arms out to her side; with a flick of her wrists, powerful gusts of wind tunneled through the bars from above. Each end of the cage broke from it's hinges, throwing the locks out unto the ground split into tiny pieces. "Run for high ground." was all that Maxine said before darting off the ledge. Maxine wasted no time smashing the entire carriage at the foot of the ice wall with the standing by trees. Manipulating the harsh wind that raked through this particular forest could not have served her better at any point of her life. The trees crashed atop the ragged contraption. As Maxine was positive the girls had gotten off the path winding behind them, she lifted herself atop the pile of lumber. She clapped her hands together, and threw her arms vertical above her head. Roughly, a line of twenty trees toppled atop the path. 'That won't stop a Shadow walker, but it will certainly surprise them.'

Maxine shot up into the air, kicked off of the ice wall, and landed atop a densely covered tree. She grasped hold of the trunk, and paused before moving on. 'Someone helped us, who and why?' Her eyes skimmed the forest floor in question.