<b>Beldabar's Rest</b><br/><br/>With Ivan holding the gnome up at arms length, Ixana's intervention meant she was facing the muscular human, with her back towards the flailing gnome.  Nock tried to steady himself by resting his hands on Ixana's bare shoulders, the feel of her soft skin in his hands was truly a delight.<br/><br/>Nock couldn't be more pleased with Ixana's reaction to his binders but he had clearly misjudged the meat shield's reaction.  The muscle bound dunce was ruining the perfect scenario for Nock to finally get his hands on the girl he had been fantasizing about since he joined her ill-fated group.  Under normal circumstances he might have been more than happy to have even half of Ix's attention and a share of her sexy body, but the obvious success of his binders made him a bit less flexible in that regard.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(97, 189, 109)">"Get rid of him!" </span>He tells Ixana in a somewhat panicked voice as he hangs suspended from Ivan's powerful grip.<br/><br/>Ivan is somewhat naturally suspicious of magic and mechanisms so it doesn't take any great powers of deduction to equate the spell with the bindings, more on instinct than intellect.  As Ixana raises her bound wrists up to him he decides he needs to release her to break the gnome's grip on her.  He released the gnome, who falls onto Ixana's shoulders but he doesn't react quick enough and continues to fall, finally grabbing out at the silk wrappings barely concealing her upper body.<br/><br/>Ivan grabs Ixana's wrists and twists them in such a way to separate the bindings, her slight strength no match for his.  He succeeds in detaching the binding bracelets from each other, but both are still around her wrists.  It is the actual locking mechanism that contains the magic, not the connecting mechanism, so it has no impact on Ixana's condition.<br/><br/>Just as Ivan wrests her wrists apart, Nock pulls on the silk from Ixana's back.  The material strains against the full roundness of the warlock's bosom as it holds the weight of the gnome, compressing the orbs slightly just before it all lets go and her bountiful breasts practically bounce out of the confining silk.  Nock hits the floor but lands on his feet.  Ivan's eyes go wide as he gets an eyeful of Ixana's most obvious assets.  He hesitates a moment as he takes in the spectacular view of Ixana's topless body.  He starts to wonder if he really wants to spend his time fighting these two.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(163, 143, 132)">"Maybe."</span>He says, his focus clearly more on Ixana's breasts than the overall situation, creating a moment of pause for more negotiation.