Zeo clapped a hand to her cheek where Night Steel had kissed it, a look of shock on her face. "You, too," she murmured, watching him rush after the Lorekeeper.
She looked down at what she had in her other hand. "A plastic sword. Fat lot of good _that'll_ do me." She kept digging, hoping she wouldn't have to venture inside the Backpack to find something to help. She pulled out a bowling ball and hurled it at the enemy ((I'm lost; who or what are we fighting now, if anything?)), followed by eight of the ten pins that were supposed to come with it.
