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After circling the massive mound of monster that had formed over the downed dragon for more than an hour, the Air Force transport airplane was getting low on fuel. Greble could sense KraKara’s enormous raw power, but she could no longer detect the dragon. The dragon was gone, the Witch concluded confidently, so she had the transport fly north, but masked its passage through various spells.
The plane reached the deserts of Algeria before it finally ran out of fuel. As the aircraft began to rapidly lose altitude, Greble dragged the limp Chosen One to an emergency door and opened it. Wind whipped through the airplane, but Greble ignored it, while no one else on-board was capable of noticing.
“Now we’ll find out how durable you really are, Chosen girl,” she hissed to semi-conscious Mary, before she threw her roughly from the plane. She watched the body violently tumble away and out of sight, towards the tan sand far below.
Many of the humans remaining on board were still alive, but moments later the Witch sucked the remaining life from all of them, including the woman known as Ellen. Then she jumped from the plane herself. She couldn’t fly, and the landing would be uncomfortable for a moment, but as a part - elemental she would easily survive.