<div class="floatright">(http://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.roosterteeth.com/uploads/images/54063e01-6933-4e38-b195-d0fc28595a06/md/2181220-1448930942333-Warrior_Karsten_Face.jpg)</div>Subduing a small grin of amusement at the ladies weak stomachs when they tried to cover their dainty sensibilities from the stench, Cerias took a small step to the side, intending to watch the show without comment. That intention was almost immediately broken as both the ladies drew blades, and he raised a finger to ask why. That’s when the pair of spoiled girls heedlessly charged two packs of rats feasting on the bloated carcass he’d pointed out to them earlier. That he had expected, and the lack of surprise on his stark face was deafening. At least the dark haired one had a pretty good voice, he’d give her that much.<br/><br/>From there he could have told them just about how the fight would go. They’d start hewing around them with the clubs, he refused to call them swords or blades, easily swatting a rat here and there into a bloody mulch with a lucky hit or two while scattering the brunt of the furry little monsters in all directions. Yeah, they certainly did that, with growing smiles on their pretty, clueless little faces.<br/><br/>Now overconfidence would overtake them and they’d stop truly paying attention to their surroundings, drawn in by gleefully trampling rat after rat into the muck, greed and loot-fever setting fire to their spirit and burning down their awareness in equal measure.<br/><br/>Okay, he hadn’t expected the bolt of ice, or rather he’d expected something like that much sooner, and had to force himself not to have his bristled jaw fall down in stupefied wonder when it suddenly came out of nowhere. Not that he hadn’t seen magic before, but from actually having a wizard flail around her with a slightly sharpened stick instead of just letting loose with all her power immediately. Had she actually waited until the wildly mud stomping friend of hers to get their attention before starting? No, that wasn’t it at all he realized, feeling that tiny little seed of hope that they might yet surprise him wither and die like a spark of flame coming in the way of the bolt of ice the redhead happily sent in a ball of coiling blue energy steaming in the air towards one of the emerging dire rats that had been summoned out of their dens by their escaped cousins.<br/><br/>Exasperation and incredulity fought for prominence inside the otherwise expressionless warrior as his sky blue gaze watched everything came thundering back on track to be in line with his expectations of their performance. He’d known it would be bad; he’d known he would feel the urge hammering through him to just send a shockwave through the ground, ending the damn rats and his obligation to be there in one fell swoop; that whatever low bar he set for the pair of wildly out of place women, they’d happily dig with manicured fingers and bright teeth into the blood and gore crusted muck to get below it, and that he inevitably would get the blame for it no matter how it ended.<br/><br/>Regardless he sighed and crossed his powerful arms before his chest, still standing back, as dozens of huge, beady eyes glowed menacingly from the darkness only to coalesce into a dozen or so dog-sized D-RUOS, or dire-rodents of unusual size. Their patchily furred bodies, covered in ulcers and sores weeping pus, adding to the already impressive stench, prowled out towards the two women. Only one of who’d actually noticed anything at all, while the other acted like a two year old walking down a shadow district alley at night, blissfully oblivious to it all.<br/><br/>Now he knew panic would set in, already he saw the cruel reality dawn on the curvy wizard girl. Then screams and shouts, shattering whatever he had left of his eardrums no doubt, before they’d either come running back to him crying for help, or get swarmed and dragged to the ground. Either way he predicted a surge in unhappy-female activity in his close proximity shortly.<br/>“And in one…two….and….”<br/><br/>He muttered as the dark haired girl finally clued on to what was about to happen….<br/>