Rosie immediately leaps into battle, bringing her handaxe down, hard, on the cat's spine, hard enough that he can hear the crack of vertebrae breaking. The druid reacts a little more slowly, but hurries in, and casts a healing spell on him, restoring 16 HP.<br/><br/>The scorching ray actually catches the cat in the open jaw, burning straight through and out the back. It staggers forward a few steps, then collapses in a heap, dead at his feet.