Seems that the spell didn't work, oh well, he'll help Koreshian wrap it later if they had the chance. The shield was wedged rather well and the bodies behind it would help slow the horde. Gerald turned to follow Koreshian, Stopping outside the the entryway he turned and released a volley of light balls into the ceiling passage.<em>Falto, falto, falto, falto</em>The blasts echoed mightily as rubble and rock rained down clogging the passage even more. Time for now would be on their side.<br/><br/>Maeryn and the creature were well out of sight but the stnik of darkness and evil was tangable on the air as Gerald followed this path he found the few spots where Maeryn may have slipped on the shale, which was just a disturbance in the dirt and pebbles. Pausing a moment Gerald closed his eyes and took a deep slow breath and slowly let it out as he mentally told his eyes to go beyond what was visible and see auras again. Such was the taint about this other man that it left a trail and he could now see that he went up and then down a further stretch down the mountain. The path he'd taken had been safer than a straight shot, likely more as a courtesy to Maeryn than himself. But Gerald didn't need such things, Focusing again he brought to his hands and feet a layer of 'hair' roots to help him grab at the tiny crevices in the rock face and then carried on the straighter path to converge with the remnent trail of his quarry. But at the same time his use of magic was starting to tell, as he moved his mind had bouts of fuzziness the soul remnent within the spear was coming out with the use of magics and was now starting to fight for control of his body.