{{I was under the impression that a<a class="postlink" href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm#take5FootStep">five foot step</a>such as Sashi's under no circumstances provokes AoO?}}<br/><br/>Chrrou gives a pained snarl as the arrow tears through his flesh, but he shakes off the haze of pain, gazing at the oncoming trolls and curling his lips back from his teeth in a malicious grin; he has no intention of allowing them to come to their leader's aid. Taking a quick couple of paces backward [free action: five-foot step] to stand half-behind rather than alongside Heshaar, this time his other paw rises, twisting viciously through the air and then clenching tight as he pronounces an uluating incantation.<br/><br/>[<span style="font-style: italic"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/wallOfThorns.htm">Wall of Thorns</a></span>, shaped to enclose as many of the four oncoming non-alpha trolls as possible, whether that means a 30x30 or 50x20 or bending 100x10 or more irregularly-shaped formation of wood]<br/><br/>As his cry trails off and his paw slams to the snow-covered earth, a near-impregnable prison of twisted branches and spikes and flesh-lacerating thorns weaves itself up around (some / all) of the forward-rushing subordinate giants.