In the meantime, the sphinxes have awakened, and arrived downstairs, dressing and making themselves look presentable, in record time. They're outside, along with Elwyrr, the others having retreated inside.<br/><br/>He feels a tingling in the back of his mind, about the same place he feels his magic, sometimes, drawing his eyes towards an alley, off to his left. As he looks, he'll sense more than see a shape in the shadows, though his brain quickly focuses in on the two spots of jade, apparently floating about two feet off the ground, focused with a predator's intensity on him.<br/><br/>Then it pounces.<br/><br/>The creature leaves the alleyway in a single bounding leap, covering a good fifteen feet of distance before landing in a running stride, covering the remaining ten feet between them in a flash, before lunging again, the massive, midnight-black cat leaping straight towards him, two-inch long claws extended, obviously going for a quick kill.