The beholders were firmly holding the three 'corners' of the formation, about a hundred feet across, with the ghaeles in their orb forms in the middle of it, about sixty feet across. The someone sensed the gathering magic in time to alert the others, and the beholders opened their main eyes, and turned them toward the approaching spells, protecting them, while the ghaele's spell resistance protected them from the onslaught. The ghaeles immediately converged, and Draiss considered, before ordering a sending to be used to alert the Invisible stalker to the magic user, and direct it to remove the magic threat. Two of the ghaele's had been singed during the attack, and they group used their cure light wounds spell like abilities before diverting to the west, away from the attacker, toward one of the areas that had been hit during the attack.