One moment, the rogue's body was down, skewered by a large sword, a tangled mess with the paladin, the next... He simultaniously shattered into ash, like a fistful of sand opened up under the waters of a raging river, and yet, also imploding in on himself, as if sucked away by a black hole where his heart should have been. Even the sphere of light placed upon him by the priestess was vaccumed in. Yet, before the last teathers of souty dust was gone, the reappeared, and reformed behind her... behind the gnomes. A dagger sized katana blade sheathed in unholy green energy lanced forth from within the gathering darkness, as it assumed a familier form... A beautifully glowing rapier following suit.<br/><br/>"Sore move..." He whispered to the midged form. As it was proven, just how much blood could be forced from a body, when executed by the right hands. A knee up the ass helped in forcing the gnome's innards from erupting through the broad, hip to hip eviceration which trailed over his belly. While a forceful thumb under the chin outstretched his neck, and causing the garroted arteries in his throat to spray their lifebood across the ceiling, and Maoria's robes. Casting the body aside, he left the remaining Alliance to their own face, pitted against the guards, abominations, and any other's that had been drawn to the battle by the priestess' mental whisper<b><i>(Hint hint)</i></b>. Instead, he turned his focus onto the felled forsaken. "Priestess... Maoria... Can you, hear me..?" He did not speak with any obvious concern in his perpetually lame tone of voice... Though the manner in which he craddled her shoulders in his arms, rested her head on his leathergarbed bycep, gently shaking her...<br/><br/>The smell of poisons and herbs overpowering the stench of the sewers, if for but a moment... Peering up, he looked left... Then right. Insuring they were alone... "Do you require, healing?" One hand leaving her person, vanishing under the cloaks, which were now partly draped over her, sticking to both their bodies due to wetness.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>