Althea sees with worry that the bird seems to have injured Mara quite a bit. However, she still has to deal with the bird facing her. Slowly inching towards Mara, she waits for the bird to let his cover drop. When it does, she quickly seizes that opportunity and with a speed someone not familiar with Lamias would not have thought possible, she wraps her tail around the bird, squeezing it tightly with all her might.<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 to O36-P37 (5ft), grab Bird 1 and deal constrict damage (std). If the bird is dead or unconscious from the constrict, she drops it (free) and retrieves one of her healing potions (move) - the only opponent in range is dead or unconscious, so this doesn't provoke any AoO.<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/401493">Grapple (Bird 1)</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+8</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">23</span><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/401494">Constrict Dmg (Bird 1)</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d10+4</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">12</span><br/>Seems I only roll well on Knowledge checks and sometimes in combat &gt;.&gt;<br/>If I managed to kill that bird (or knock it unconscious), we'll probably survive. Otherwise, likely not.<br/><br/>Also, Althea is at 7hp, not 8hp. She only had 11/12, because she had yet to recover 1hp from banging her head on the box.</div></div></div>