Alissia's brow scrunched.  The caster faded out of her sight.  Invisibility?  Or was it an illusion?  She continued to stare at the spot she knew he had just been.  No, she thought, there was something going on here ... maybe she could just see his outline.  Then it clicked with her, and she could feel the subtle manipulation in her brain, some .. force, a magic she had never encountered before, trying to literally remove the his image from her mind's eye.<br/><br/>And the effect was over, and Dusek was visible once more.<br/><br/>Only thing for it was another bolt.  Cocked, loaded, she aimed carefully and fired.  She wished that she had another weapon along with the crossbow.  But she had to work with what she had.  And right now, she had to at least hurt this mage enough to gain some kind of advantage.