[Cards] Phoenix Fan

Barbin and his companion ran; their escape routes diminishing. He saw his partner stop from the corner of his eye, and before he could shout for her to keep running, she had already pulled out a gilded, crimson fan.

She blew on its paper, and the air around her quickly filled with choking ash. He assumed that she was attempting to martyr herself, allowing him to escape from the cave.

He was wrong.

From the soot-filled air came a wave of searing flames. The sounds of terrified kobolds cried out from behind the black, beyond Barbin's sight.

Out from the billowing smoke walked his partner, coughing and swatting the smoldering embers from her leathers. Calmly, she picked up the rest of the treasure they'd stolen, and the two of them walked out of the den and into the fresh, forested air.