Mesaraih had to force his mind to focus as Ester handed the daggers back to him. He was a bit taken aback by seeing them lit on fire, but he was also excited to use them, and wasn't about to waste any more seconds of precious time. As the darskpawn converged, he slashed at their exposed areas: under the arms, their hips, their necks, sometimes their eye sockets. He found that the flaming weapons helped immensely. If it didn't outright kill them, every blow at least gave the darkspawn enough pause to writhe in pain for a bit, giving him the chance to finish them off all the quicker.<br/><br/>As soon as Tal and Valehna joined the fight, the attention of the darkspawn became divided, and the fight became much easier from there. A lot of the tougher enemies seemed to go for the biggest target, who was the Qunari, and that helped Mesaraih to flank them from behind and backstab them. As he watched a particularly well armored hurlock writhe about in pain from one of his daggers sinking into his back, he had to admit to himself that working with a team had its advantages.<br/><br/><span style="color: #00FF00">Valehna showered the darkspawn with spirit and lightning bolts, feeling liberated at being able to cast so much magic without attracting every enemy's nearby attention. This was the sort of fighting she was more used to, working together with her clans to fend off bandits and the like, and she had to admit that for all their shortcomings off the battlefield, these misfits weren't bad people to have alongside you for a fight.<br/><br/>Soon enough, the darkspawn onslaught had thinned considerably, and the remaining ones seemed to flee. Valehna looked around in confusion. <br/><br/>"Uh, I guess we're that good?" Mesaraih asked, rotating his arm to work out a kink from having it one position for too long.<br/><br/>"I don't think so," Valehna said. Her ears had picked up a thunderous pair of footsteps in the distance. "There's something coming. Something big. I say we take it down, or else it'll keep following us around."<br/><br/>The footsteps grew closer, and louder, and joined with them were other smaller footsteps, as well as the sound of crashing trees. Valehna squinted and saw dust in the sky above the treetops. Before long, a giant, armored ogre hurtled into their midst, the trees around him falling like toothpicks.<br/><br/>"Well, shit," she heard Mesaraih say, though she wasn't looking at him. <br/><br/>"Ester! Think you can slow that thing down somehow?" Valehna shouted to her.</span>