The Shadow Stalkers did not hold back their blows, and the guards quickly discovered that pulling back only exposed them to the dragon, who lashed them with its lightning breath, before allowing them to retreat in disorder. The shadow stalkers did a quick self check, before one of them stepped up to the gnoll, and saluted, forearm across its breast instead of its shoulder like when it was conversing with another shadow stalker or Draiss. "Ma'am, I am in charge of getting you out of here in one piece, and then continuing operations in the area. If you will stand by until the avatar gets done playing overhead, it will escort you to the domain, where another avatar will be bringing your sister shortly."<br/><br/>The avatar sighed, and then shook its head. "Because they checked the flowers immediately after you left, several times, by several priestesses. If any had been damaged, you would have been dead in minutes, and preventing that would have been extremely difficult and still would be dangerous. So, instead, he makes a ruckus, while we simply walk out with the other people. And trust this one, but you do not want to be here when they realize exactly what he is doing."<br/><br/>Draiss was busy trimming the plants in the inner sanctum, humming under his breath as he stripped as many flowers as possible, slipping each one into a bag of holding across his back to prevent damage to them. The bag would also prevent them from drying out or losing their potency before he got them back to Mordin. Finally collecting almost half of the flowers in the room, he decided it was time for the party to start, as Amelia and the avatar with her were getting ready to leave the room. He tucked one of the flowers in the breast pocket of his leather jerkin, impossible to miss, before dismissing the SEP spell, and walking out of the cover of the vines and directly at the oldest, mostly hideously ugly crone in the room, and nodded politely to her before slipping the flower behind her ear telekinetically. "Get the door for me like a good girl?"