Crushes capricorn construct riot shield

"Tristan, can you make us shields? One for each of us? More like the shields SWAT teams and Patrol teams have than anything else."

"It'll be heavy."

"Worst case scenario, it breaks in my hands."

*****

"Victoria," Tristan said.

I turned to look, and the orange motes he was drawing manifested into a shape. It was a little more triangular than rectangular, the point scraping the ground, but it had a bar across the middle and it had a hole in the front to peer through, if I kept my head at the right angle. Black stone, run through with veins of what looked like copper, gold, or a mix therein. It tipped toward me, and I caught it with my burned hand and my shoulder, before catching it with my other hand.

"Stand back," I said. I glanced back to make sure the coast was clear, and then I activated the Wretch.

Stone creaked and strained as the Wretch grabbed it, and it bucked this way and that as hands gripping the top and then the side pulled at the edges. Part of the bar broke almost immediately.

*****

"Yeah," I said. The Wretch crushed a part of the shield, and I winced.