As the Stupid Raiders tried to scale their building, they were met by Aure's blade where she had stationed herself near the ladder.  As their faces came into view her thin longsword would flash forward and take out their eyes or aim for their necks.  This would cause that first one to fall down the ladder and knock the others off so Aure herself could push the ladder away and move to the next one and repeat the process while others shot the bows down at the ascending raiders.<br/><br/>When she noticed the attacks on her roof lesson she was able to notice that the attacks on the other archers were being more successful, they had overwhelmed those rooftops by the time the order was given to retreat.  She saw very few survivors from the archers other than her own, and after looking down at the alley's between the houses, she knew they couldn't retreat that way.  The rooftops were the best even with the raiders manning the key ones toward the square and the Chantry.<span style="color: Magenta">“We need to go across the roofs.  It is the only chance I think we have...”</span>she began before hearing the young man's talking.<br/><br/>With the blacksmith's fear, she noticed then how most of those around Lyle and her were looking at them.  She looked to the young blacksmith for a moment before speaking up, after a sigh.<span style="color: Magenta">“Take the crossbow I was using, there should be half a dozen bolts left for it in the quiver.  Shem, can you have them provide a distraction as I jump to the occupied houses and start clearing them?  The raiders are actually on a couple of the buildings in our way.  We should get there faster than the raiders...”</span>At least that is what she hopped would happen as she tightened her grip on the blades in her hands before waiting for any reply from he villagers or Lyle.  She was sure this was the only way to get back to the chantry alive.<br/><br/>Immediately after she finished speaking, Aureslia turned and dashed towards the edge of the roof, heading towards the next house that was closer to the Chantry.  As soon as her foot hit the edge, she pushed herself off and leaped across the gap to the empty roof, but didn't stop her pace as she ran towards the next building, one that did have raiders on it.  This time she crossed her blades in front of her as she moved.  The reason this was needed became obvious when she leaped and the raiders finally noticed her in the air.<br/><br/>The blades came across as she was descending on the closest raider who had seen her, both aimed towards his neck, but the longsword cutting cleanly across the unprotected skin, slashing it open in a spray for red.  Once there she started spinning in her dance of blades, each flashing with deadly speed due to their light weight.  She was trusting Lyle and the few villagers that would hopefully follow to thin their numbers with their bows as she got in close.  Though she did have to scramble a little to find her footing after landing on that first raider.<br/><br/>Dodging under a clumsy swing of a heavy blade by ducking down and spinning, Aure brought her longsword around and cut through the back of the attacker's knees that had the least armor protection.  After he fell to his knees she brought up her short sword before driving it through his back.  One of the other bandit's came at her from behind as she was removing the short-sword, forcing Aure to spin around and deflect the incoming mace so that it barely missed it's target and forced the elf to take a tentative step back while trading and deflecting the blows.  She probably couldn't take too many direct blocks of the heavy blows.  After a short moment she got the opening to make a quick roundhouse kick with her booted foot at his hand, to knock the blade to the side before coming around again and driving her short-sword into his side.  After he went down the way for her was clear, assuming the others had done what she had said with their bows.<br/><br/>Even if they hadn't cleared the other raiders off with their bows, it was clear for her and she took the opening, dashing for the next gap, running to the edge before leaping to the next roof.  This one looked clear so far, though the one after didn't and it seemed they had seen her coming.  The only thing that made her pause, or more like freeze, was that sudden battle-cry she heard, and immediately recognized.  That was Cruran... what was he doing here?  It made little sense what that barbarian would be doing here in a town at all.  That pause gave one of the raiders to take his own leap over and come at her.<br/><br/>Aure only realized he was coming at the last moment and was in time to jump back, at least she thought, but he kept coming with a wider swing than she had expected.  Luck was thankfully on her side though as she landed from her jump back, the roof under her feed gave away and she fell through into someone's bedroom with a loud thud, and a loud scream of surprise from her lips, and a lot of groaning and some cursing.<br/><br/>The dust hadn't even fully cleared by the girl pulled herself off the wooden boards, and coughed up the dust that had filled the air.<span style="color: Magenta">“Blooody... damnit...”</span>she cursed while looking for her swords on the ground.   While doing this she yelled up to the roof, hoping and expecting that the others would have followed close enough behind to hear, she wouldn't be able to get back up most likely.<span style="color: Magenta">“Keep going, I'll run through the alleys, I don't think they will be able to keep up if they see me.”</span>Once said she found her blades and sheathed them while running down the nearest set of stairs to find the back way out into the said alleys, and hoping those would be clear while the main road wasn't.  Finding the back door, she opened it in a hurry and just took off in the direction of the chantry.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>