The young man didn't even have time to raise his blade, as a look of surprise crossed his face. He clearly wasn't expecting the caravan to fight back as quickly, nor with quite so much fury... especially not as Rimeera's blade opened a gash across his chest, dropping him to the ground, bleeding out.<br/><br/>The bandits charge the caravan, but are met with steel and arrows. The two sides trade blows, but neither one seems to have much affected the other, although Shalelu picks off an archer in the trees with a well-placed shot.<br/><br/>Several arrows land near Rimeera, but none come close to hitting her.