[Dean has been careful to stay on the move; it's the key to this kind of battle, when the exact nature and number of the enemy is unknown, when allies are few and far between, unreliable. He's used to only being able to rely on himself, though, even if sometimes he thinks that's just a factory default setting he's stuck with: no one should rely on him, not even himself.
But he's trying. Between himself and the few other Barge residents that are actually working to clear out this tower and extract their less well adapted fellow residents, there's a space in the servant quarter, cleared of spider webs and spiders that he's warded and circled with salt to serve as a safe point while he investigates the rest of the guard tower. This is the point he retreats to when he encounters something he can't overpower or banish.
Like the pair of haunted armor suits that have chased him back this far. Dean is holding a sword, of course, but it won't do him much good against two opponents that actually know how to use theirs; so he runs, not in a panic but deliberately, with purpose, leaping the line of salt and slowing only a few steps into the cleared space to turn and see what effect the line of protection has against his pursuit.
Regardless of who else might be in the room, for now.]
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But he's trying. Between himself and the few other Barge residents that are actually working to clear out this tower and extract their less well adapted fellow residents, there's a space in the servant quarter, cleared of spider webs and spiders that he's warded and circled with salt to serve as a safe point while he investigates the rest of the guard tower. This is the point he retreats to when he encounters something he can't overpower or banish.
Like the pair of haunted armor suits that have chased him back this far. Dean is holding a sword, of course, but it won't do him much good against two opponents that actually know how to use theirs; so he runs, not in a panic but deliberately, with purpose, leaping the line of salt and slowing only a few steps into the cleared space to turn and see what effect the line of protection has against his pursuit.
Regardless of who else might be in the room, for now.]