Xarius is thankful to see that when he steps up to speak, that everyone is mindful enough to put any bickering with one another on hold. That was certainly a good sign for their success, as they would have to work together whether they liked it or not in the upcoming moments, and the more willing they were to do that, the better their chances of things going smoothly. Only Mona makes a comment as he discusses the plan, and even that is not rude or out of place. Only when he addresses her individually does she say anything that effects him, he initially grinning quite charmingly to her comment about sweet talking, her adding in "I've a certain knack for being able to give a girl just what she wants." he declares with a seductive smirk, followed by a glance in Delia's direction as he's reminded of his promise. Though his voice caries a tone indicative of flirting, he does not allow it to subtract from the overall commanding speech he had been giving. Xarius is only silenced momentarily when Mona offers to eat him herself, should the ship be destroyed and they find themselves in the ocean. His feline pupils widening with curiosity as he looks her over, unable to tell if she speaking in jest, or if she was serious in such an offer. Xarius rebounds, reaching out with a grin to pat Mona's middle "Nice to know that should worst come to worst, I'm in good hands....or in your case good stomach?" he chuckles "Admittedly I'd rather it be any of you, than a mindless shark, or voracious mermaid if I had to be eaten" he admits, allowing his fingers to splay and caress Mona's middle for just a moment before continuing, his hands strong and warm, clearly skilled in their ministrations, the dexterous hands of a trained archer. "and who knows, perhaps in eating me you'd be given enough sustenance to survive an extended time at sea, and ultimately make the journey to land after all." he adds in optimistically.<br/><br/>The rest of the conversation goes smoothly enough, various members of the group describing their preference for being armed or not, or their appetite for both battle and meals as seemed to be the case in Chira's part. Xarius couldn't really blame them however, armed as they were, eating an enemy would be as good a means of getting them out of the way as any, and that large powerful body of her's was sure to have plenty of room inside to pack away several individuals his size... not to mention it'd be a drastic improvement in cuisine over what little they'd been fed in captivity. During the conversation, Xarius couldn't help but drift in his thoughts several times back to what Mona had said... would she truly eat him if the ship went down? Sure it was better than being eaten by a shark, or drowning in this heavy armor he'd adorned himself with... so in a sense it was a very welcome alternative. But what would happen after that... would she be eaten in turn? Would he use her body as a form of living life raft to get to shore? Or would she be stranded at sea for an extended period of time, idly floating along as he was ultimately digested inside her?<br/><br/>Whatever her intentions, or the outcome of said scenario would be, such thoughts were best left for another time. Now was the time to fight, and his mind needed to be free from distraction if he was to perform optimally. Taking a moment to both clear his head, and psyche himself up, he puts his shoulder into the door and pushes on into the hall. Immediately Xarius notices the hall is guarded, and while unfortunate as that was, he was relieved to see it was only 3 opponents in total, and that their escape had not been discovered prematurely and there was an army of opposition awaiting their arrival. His feline ears perk at the sound of their conversation, they having noticed their escape immediately. It seemed they wished the rodent to run for help, and while Xarius doubted he'd be able to physically reach him in time to prevent this, he did have a means of slowing him down if all else failed. For now however he'd engage the guard's directly, trusting in the more magically inclined to see what spells they could muster.... that or perhaps Chira would merely trample the lot of them entirely.<br/><br/>"I'll take the one on the left, if someone could stop the rodent from squealing." Xarius declares gripping his sword and shield in each hand, he rushes on ahead, closing the distance between he and the leftmost guard in relatively short order. His ears pressing low against his head, as his tail swishes and sways aggressively behind him, the fur at the very base, standing on end as he strikes out with his borrowed weapon. Calling back to his early days of training, wielding a much heavier melee weapon than he was used to, he carefully aims his strike to slip past the soldier's guard.<br/><br/><br/>Xarius<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;">Moving to attack the leftmost of the two guards. <br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/412185">guard swats</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d20+11</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">22</span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/412186">guard swat dmg</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d8+3</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">5</span></div></div></div>