The largest of the bandits only had a moment to react to Jarvan's charge, and, to his credit, he used that time fairly well. He whirled around at the sudden sound, eyes wide in surprise, and reflexively brought his knife up defensively. The move spared him a nasty blow, but cost him his weapon; Jarvan's flail tore the knife, spinning, from his hand. He staggered backwards, more stumbling than really dodging, and there his luck came to an end. His foot slipped on an exposed rock and he fell, backwards, striking the ground hard.<br/><br/>The archer's attention, meanwhile, had definitely been torn way from the group's victims. Unlike her larger friend, her expression wasn't one of shock. Instead, she looked angry. Pulling away from the young woman, she quickly turned on Jarvan's exposed back, rose her bow to line up a shot... and gave the nguruvilu the opening she needed. Her blast of water smashed straight through the bow, snapping it clean in two, and continued on to strike the archer's torso. She was pushed back a few places, collided with young woman behind her, and knocked her to the ground. However, she managed to keep her own footing. She looked at the two useless sticks that her bow had become, tossed them aside, then reached for a knife tucked into her belt.<br/><br/>"Jed!" She called to her book-carrying companion, without even glancing his direction - her eyes were fixed on Jarvan. "He's a contractor! What have you got for us?"<br/><br/>Jed grinned, and flipped open his tome. He raised a hand, and stretched it towards Jarvan's back. "Cornea! Shadow ba-"<br/><br/>A flash of red and gold suddenly shot past Jed's face from the undergrowth and slammed directly into the floating Evil Eye. It had a moment to look distinctly unimpressed with this turn off events before it hit the ground and bounced, carrying both itself and its fishy attacker off into the bushes on the other side of the track.<br/><br/>"... ah." Jed muttered, awkwardly lowering his hand as he watched them go.