((I'm not trying to be a jerk, just trying to make everyone happy which is mostly impossible, but I'm a people pleaser.

))
Ossanlin continues to fend off the mental attacks of the monster, probing, searching in the spare glimpses between attacks to see if he could find a weakness...anything
...that could be exploited.
<I think...I think...agh...it feeds...on energy...as..well..
.> Ossanlin staggers back another step as the mental barrage continues. <We...need....ugh...
we need...to...banish it....we...we need...Mar!> Ossanlin uses what little energy he can spare to send out a beacon through the timestream...one with Mar's energy signal, or at least the energy that Ossanlin had related with Mar. If Mar was half as intelligent as Ossanlin expected...he would see it as a desperate call for help...which is exactly what Ossanlin meant it to be.
As the beacon goes out, he feels another sort of attack coming from the being...it was...subtle. So subtle he almost missed its intent...this was dangerous...if Ossanlin left even a tiny hole in his defense, or if he lost too much energy, the demon would possibly obliterate his mind completely. This was bad...if help didn't arrive soon...well Ossanlin had made peace with death, but stray thoughts of Alic danced through his head...he didn't want to die yet.