The man tried to struggle, assuming a lower, but wider posture, while Kalaj was getting closer. Aevala wasn't easily disconcerted, though, and simply stepped back and turned her body, throwing him over her hip instead, as a wrestler might do on a market day. Then she had to intertwine her legs with his.<br/>The arriving Kalaj just grappled the unhurt hand of the man and kept it safe while he was attempting to grab a knife. He managed to stab it into Aevala's thigh, but the wound was not really a deep one, and the man got no second chance.<br/>Together, they had no problem keeping him until Adija and Dingo arrived. Even before that, the protective light had disappeared, and a gentle nudge from Kalaj's knife had persuaded the man to lie still.<br/>The good part was, Dingo had had the good idea to bring some rope, so they tied the hairless man up.<br/>As it turned out, Thalealius had a surprise of his own. He cast a spell which caused his hands to glow faintly with a blue light. Upon touching her thigh, the wound closed, almost healed instantly through the power of arcane forces.<br/>Well, maybe his hand remained unnecessarily long on her thigh. Who could tell?<br/><br/>The icon was still dangling from Kalaj's knife.