<span style="color: #00FF00">Valehna eyes Tal's pocket. Why did he have to hold on to the key? It had been perfectly fine in her hands. Shrugging off the nagging feeling for the moment, she nodded and looked over to the last statue.<br/><br/>She felt the energy she had sucked out of the key coursing through her. It was intense enough to almost be bursting out of her. "Been ready for some time now," she said, pointing her staff at the earth beneath the statue. A similar earthquake to the one she had conjured before manifested itself, swallowing the statue's stone to feed the rumbling and tossing about of the earth beneath it. When she let the spell go, the rocks lay still for a moment before beginning to shudder again.<br/><br/>"Here we go," Valehna said, as the rocks began to reform themselves. Except this time, they formed themselves into only one shape. It was the same as before, but much bigger. And the key inside Tal's pocket glowed an even brighter red, just as the aura that surrounded the giant rock wraith also turned red.<br/><br/>Valehna gritted her teeth and aimed several magic bolts at the wraith, making only a few small holes of corrosion appear on its edges.</span><br/><br/>Mesaraih felt a bit of himself get carried away when Ester returned the kiss. As short as the moment was, he closed his eyes throughout it, allowing himself to fall into a pleasant moment unlike most of the things he remembered in his life.<br/><br/>It was over as soon as it started; Ester reciprocated at first and then pushed him away. She took the dagger he embedded in the ice and melted it down. Mesaraih tried not to stare at the melting ice and place anything symbolic onto it.<br/><br/>Instead, he grabbed the dagger from Ester's hand and didn't look at her or say anything. He drew his other dagger and faced the darkspawn. He charged at one and stabbed and slashed at every exposed part of its body he could find, eventually willing it to fall down through pure laceration. It was pockmarked with cuts and incisions, and he tasted some of its blood on his tongue. He spit some of it away, repulsed, as he turned to face the rest of the darkspawn.