Marie
The snap of a twig from the brush nearby drew the attention of all three thugs, even the two holding Eden. It also drew the attention of Carver, who had been creeping up behind the brainiac leader of the group of thugs just as it happened. Unfortunately, as all four frozen and turned to look, it seemed to draw attention to Carver as well. It took a long moment, seemingly frozen in time, for the two brutes holding Eden against the boulder to realize that, while the sound of the twig snapping hadn't been caused by him, Carver was in fact an intruder all the same. The leader seemed to be the only one who saw Laini crouched in the brush, and no one seemed to realize that Keladan was up there in the trees looking down on them all. 

"Hey!" The two cried in unison, breaking the silence, and Carver knew he had to act. Leaping forward with his shortsword in hand, he brought the flat of the blade down at the back of the leader's head with a determined quickness, but the big man turned and brough his big mace up to parry the blade with a mighty swing of his own. Mace and sword blade struck, and the force of the blow caused the sword to fly free of Carver's hand and clang against the boulder, not all that far from Eden's head. Eden's snide query had seemingly gone unresponded to, but at least the two brutes seemed to have enough brains between them to not let go of her, keeping her arms pinned, though both of the big men were quite distracted, looking away from her. 

"Uh... Hi!" Carver greeted the leader towering over him, then lunged to the side as the big man roared and swung the mace in his direction again.
Kathleen
*Eden flinched as the sword came flying her direction, not feeling very relieved- even after she heard the blade hit the boulder. Of course, the gods would spite her by defying her odds, but the provided help was near useless.*

*With the two grunts distracted, Eden knew this was the perfect time to seize the opportunity. Delivering a well placed kick between the legs to the grunt on her left, she would twist her hips and throw her left knee into the right grunt's stomach. With the angle she was at the blow wasn't very powerful, and she tripped over herself trying to plant her feet.*
Joseph
It was quite a feeling of relief for an elf, as he watched the happenings below. Truly this would be making things much easier for him to test the newt enchantment. Once those three nicer looking fellows got the better of the thugs, he could just plonk down and use the transmutation on an unconscious fellow..
 ..
 His feeling of relief faded quickly. The would be heroes were having a harder time of it than he would of expected.. His heart leapt with worry at the newfound pressure of such a situation, maybe if he jumped forth and attempted to plant his boots into the skull of one of the more distracted men.. He had never done such a thing like that before though.. 'Ah that would be scary, too.'
 He didn't know what to do.. Most of the time in situations of quick decisive thinking and life or death. Keladan was quite the opposite of helpful. 
 He remained above and continued to watch. Fear welling up to his mind, He didn't want to see any blood shed here on this day nor a woman hurt. Yet not even that currently was bringing him to take action.