Well, he hadn't been expecting that. The sad part was that he should have been; he'd been a warrior for a great deal of his life before this one. Still, massive dragons hadn't been on the battlefield.

When the tail swung he'd barely begun to think about casting Barrier, and by the time he'd been knocked flat on his back a few feet away he'd had a dim thought of how useless it would've been anyway.

Jalen winced and rolled to one side, looking up to see Seph in the air, sword out. He wished the man luck, because they were going to need it.