Staring at the goblin priestess and shivering at the command she had screamed, she could feel something trying to coil around her spine and chill it, a feeling of dread, a feel of danger. Of course she was afraid at times, and she faced danger each day, but this was different, it was taking what was there and making it so much stronger. She was not immune to fear but she believed she had mastered her own fear to some extent.<br/><br/>It certainly did not feel that way right now though. Shuddering a little, she reminded herself what was at stake. If she failed, the guard captain would be in danger too. Steeling her nerves, she narrowed her eyes at the goblin woman. "Not today." She said this clearly, and glared at the woman. Her hand drew the rapier from her side. She didn't want to kill the priestess, she might have useful information, but she had to strike at her. If only she knew how to use her grace with a blade, but that had never been part of her lessons.<br/><br/>So she pulled back and made an attack, trying to use the long slender blade's side to smack the goblin on the temple.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll of 9.. +3 Will, totaling 12. Defender's victory on exact total, correct?<br/><br/>Using rapier (+1 attack bonus, from strength) to attack, but trying to cause nonlethal damage at that. -4 from trying to go for nonlethal. -3 total. Roll of 18, drops to 15 ... and its a critical threat for rapier... but second roll of 14 -3 is 11, which I doubt is enough to land a hit on the priestess, at least critically. Damage roll is 1d6+1, for 5.</div></div>