Mesaraih eye's were wide, still watching the battlefield with disbelief. "To think some people didn't believe this was a real Blight," he mused with a shake of his head.<br/><br/>The dragon slowly but surely began to stem the tide of the fight completely. Although the rock wraiths gave the purple dragon some pause, eventually they were too outnumbered by both it and the small army of darkspawn around them. In fact, it seemed the room was filling up with even<span style="font-style: italic">more</span>darkspawn. He tried to look into the darkness farthest from his line of sight, but couldn't tell whether they were coming from a tunnel far-off. All he knew is they all seemed to be coming from the opposite direction.<br/><br/>"Well, it's our best bet at the moment, worth it or not," Mesariah said. "May as well go for it."<br/><br/>It wasn't long before the darkspawn dispatched the last of the rock wraiths. The pillars seemed to dull in their colors a bit, though Mesaraih could have imagined that. The dragon turned its maw to the tunnel where an ice wall blocked it off and spit out a plume of purple fire. He thought he heard the sizzle of the ice melting, and the darkspawn began to pour through and into it.<br/><br/>"Shit," Mesaraih said. "They'd better not even think about coming this way."<br/><br/>He heard them marching through the tunnel, though none seemed to be going up the side path. The dragon roared in the chamber for another few minutes, before launching itself into the air above the lava river and flying out of sight. Mesaraih could hear the powerful flapping of its wings for some time after it left. As he watched the chamber, the line of darkspawn continued, taking several long minutes before it began to dwindle. It was an absolutely terrifying number of darkspawn that had poured through. Eventually, it was only small groups of stragglers that would cross through to the tunnel, leaving the chamber looking oddly empty. Only the pillars remained.<br/><br/>Mesaraih felt himself breathe easier. "I guess I owe you," he finally said to Tal.