Aure glanced over at Lyle when he spoke up about how to actually use a crossbow, she just glared at the human for a bit.  She didn't say anything though before she turned her attention back to the approaching hoard of bandits.  She swallowed hard once as the fear quickly built up and crept into her heart, and she was completely unable to keep it from showing on her face while she watched all the motions of the approaching army of bandits.<span style="color: Magenta">“I should have run the first chance I got, before we even talked to Ser Kathrine...”</span>she muttered to herself as the fear crept through her.<br/><br/>But she waited without doing what a couple of the farmers did, releasing bolts or arrows too early during the charge from the bandits.  That fear creeping through her made her take heed of Lyle's words, she didn't want to die and running wasn't an option with the bandits approaching.  She would likely die if she ran now.  They had to win to survive.  Thus she waited until she heard the sound of Lyle's bow loosing it's first arrow before she squeezed the trigger on her crossbow to loose her first bolt into one of the bandit's that was climbing over an ally stuck in a bear-trap.  She watched as he toppled over with the bolt catching his leg.  Not where she had tried aiming.<br/><br/>As fast as she could, Aure stepped on the bar at the front of the crossbow to pull the string back  to the latch so she could set another bolt into it's place on the groove of the weapon before bringing it up and aiming again.  The next one missed who she was aiming for, but there were enough bandits that it struck another one in his shoulder.  This process continued for a short time through the Bandit charge, only slowing when they actually clashed with the villagers.  She had to actually watch her shots at that moment so she didn't hurt any of her allies, she actually had to take careful aim now for each bolt.<br/><br/><span style="color: Magenta">“Crap!  Shem, they are coming up to the roof!”</span>she said when she saw the ladders approaching.  Fireing the last bolt from her crossbow that she had the chance to, aiming at the nearest ladder carrier, and most likely missing.  Once the bolt left the bow, Aure tossed the thing to the side, seeing as she had only half a dozen bolts left total, and she was much more useful in what was coming if she had her blades out instead.  At the top of the first ladder hitting the side of the roof, Aure grabbed her blades and prepared to defend the roof and the archers.  It seemed as if they both just jumped into her hands. The longsword into her right, the short-sword into her left.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>