Xali laughs and gazes intently at the skilled yet unfortunate warrior doing his best to fight off both her and Kahimori, seemingly unconcerned by her painful wound (though she noticed that her two friends had suffered even worse. Then she glances over at Kahimori. "Oooh, I like this human's spirit." Her eyes flick back to Brador. "I think I'd rather take you alive, handsome, hee hee."<br/><br/>But then, the sharp sound of arrows in flight reaches her ears again, Mariel taking painful revenge on Alexei for putting a shaft into her (the kind that brings no pleasure, sadly). Xali winced slightly in sympathetic pain; being shot with multiple barbed arrows was much worse than a cut across the midsection, although her own injury was starting to throb distractingly.<br/><br/>In her mind's eye, she pictured the layout of the small battlefield, with Satrina and Mariel creating a killing field between them and Alexei, the cute armored priestess falling back, and the handsome human with the chain shirt isolated at the front. Xali had devoured a priestess once, and it ranked among the most pleasurable meals she could remember... and this one was even younger and shapelier.<br/><br/>Yet if those two svelte leather-clad archers sustained their deadly markswomanship, Xali would have no friends left to share the meal with. What's more, she and Alexei had not finished their game. Watching Brador's posture, she circled away from his great flashing blade and stepped out of it's reach once again. Then her eyes fixated on the archer girls. "I'll help, Alexei!" she shouted quickly as she began to cast. Hopefully she'd have once more chance to put a spell on that priestess.<br/><br/>Now that she had the illusion spell for protection, Xali decided that the protection given by her small darkwood shield wasn't worth the risk of spoiling one of her best spells, and she casually flung it aside, causing it to cartwheel along the ground a few times before coming to a stop. She raised her tail high and flicked it rhythmically back and forth as she worked her hands in a complicated pattern.<br/><br/>Tiny streams of blue smoke poured from her fingertips, leaving faint trails in the air as her fingers weaved. After a couple of seconds, she had a roiling, deep blue cloud in her hands. "Vir'zssss..." she murmured in a droning, dreamlike voice. Daintily, she held the orb in one hand and lifted it to her mouth, then puckered her muzzle and blew, as if she were blowing the two girls a kiss. With surprising speed, the blue cloud hurtled through the air towards the archers, where it burst with the sound of tinkling windchimes. A wave of exhaustion suddenly washed over the girls, even soothing the pain of Mariel's injury, lulling them to sleep... should the magic take effect, the three anthro warriors would surely be quite happy to 'tuck them in' somewhere very warm and snug.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">5 foot step out of Brador's reach.<br/>Drop caster's shield (AC reduced to 17)<br/>Deep Slumber centered on Satrina (so it'll affect her first if the two have 10+ HD between them). Will save DC 21 or fall asleep.<br/><br/>Nothing for me to roll this round.</div></div></div>