Once that halfling crumpled into a little sleeping pile, -almost- vaguely gnomish (though not nearly as tempting as Eiyre managed to make herself at the moment - she had to shake that thought off again), Albali's attention returned to the shield-bull. She hadn't seen the spell hit, as distracted as she was, but she knew that rigid stance anywhere. It always looked best on gnomes, in her opinion, even if it made them a little harder to choke down with arms and legs going everywhere. There was nothing she could do for it but let the seconds tick by, seconds in which he'd still make an excellent shield, but be far to easy a pincushion. She hurried up just past him, tucking herself into the crowd of voracious fairies and various still bodies, and reached back to to grab his wrist, to send his daily dose of vitality coursing back through him. She knew it was painful (and she didn't really mind that it was) and probably especially so when he couldn't do anything to express it, but she gave him a quick wink from within her hood, released her hold on him, and turned her attention back on that halfling. He wouldn't be so bad to choke down, probably. She'd never so much as licked her lips at the thought of a halfling before - it was almost like eating a human! - but the appetites of her party members made her want to branch out into new fare.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Mechanics</span><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;">Move to E11, cast Healing 1d8+4: 10 [1d8=6] on the horned shield. Ain remains where he is.</div></div></div>