Helen Huxley - The Laws of Attraction
The heavy chemistry table flew directly toward the two alchemist, only to bounce back with dull tud upon contact with Jameson's latice-work alchemy. The table fell to the ground with a loud crash. With the two alchemists saved, Helen was on her own.
She was, quite honestly, terrified and giddy. She was, as we say, “in the zone”. Her mind was no longer working with the same clinical detachment that made her so efficient in the lab. She was calculating at a more basic and primal level. A moment's decision laid between her and becoming another stain of blood, fat, and bone on the walls.
The principles of her blood alchemy were simple and rather straightforward. It was not complicated alchemy. In fact, it was perhaps one of the most basic and unrefined form of alchemy. Her blood attract her blood. Her blood repels her blood. The elegance resides in the execution and the finesse with which she can use her precious resource. Even a small quantity of her blood can create a considerable amount of pull – and she is always experimenting to increase the load. Another early challenge was to keep the blood on whatever surface she had painted it. If she was attracting merely her own blood, the utility of her technique would be reduced. A considerable amount of effort had went into making her blood stick to whatever it touched. Control verged on the mystical, but it can be explained thusly. Blood as always been seen as a force of binding. There is a bond between blood – and for alchemists, that bond is more physical and literal than most.
It is these specific characteristics that Helen invoked as she activated the blood seeped into her right gauntlet and boot to slid smoothly and swiftly out of the way of the Lycan's heavy blow – using the blood she had splattered on the wall earlier as a massive magnet. She took the opportunity, as she passed is wide open flank, to reach within in her coat and pull out another vial – and smash it on the lycan.
With Helen out of the way, the other alchemists wasted no time in taking advantage of the lycan's heavy attack. The alchemists Franklin and Matthew, saved by Jameson, were eager to pay the lycan back for the table. A hell of flames and bullet bursted from their side – and Jenson, not to be left behind, took joined in the firefight with renewed purpose. This was also a cue for Tully. He shouted “Scalp!” and his blood, using centrifugal force to propel itself, generated two blade like appendages that swung straight at the open lycan.