<div class="floatright">(http://imgur.com/TMr3H.jpg)</div>The handler's fall might as well have been a slip and tumble, what with the abruptness of his fall, but the primal, naked terror of his ward's flight betrays the gravity of it.  He has time to breathe raggedly and stare as the dark, lean shape of the drow glides soundlessly to claim him.  Her long knife is out in a flash, dangling from her hand like a foot-long claw waiting idly for a vein to seek, and she straddles his chest and crouches upon his stomach, silver eyes in her ashy face blazing when the lights flare, the disappear again as the lights go dim.<br/><br/>"How is he stopped?" Ithi'Ka murmurs, her voice strangely calm over his panting breaths as the prone handler's blood begins to seep out from below his body in a weeping circle.  She needs her answer, and she lacks the time for begging, for interrogating, or any other luxury.  Without a taste for the extraction of truth through pain, she will still practice it because, for now, it is necessary.<br/><br/>"Telanth..."  She grips the shaft of an arrow jutting from his body and begins to gently turn it in her hand.  "How cut off his power?  How stop the crystals..?"  with the cold, mechanical effort and care one might use to twist up a dandelion's root without breaking it, she begins to twist the arrow embedded in the handler's body.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=53854.msg2564950#msg2564950">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 19-12-2009, 14:00:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Question:  Would it be possible to do a retroactive reverse pick pocket?  I would like to have given Ithi'ka the wand of dispel during our ride to the palace, but have her just realize that he did so.  If allowed, my roll would have been a 29<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Just let me know.