"Demon!" Suzaku cried. "Not quite," Zetaz drawled, shooting Mei-Li that same wink he'd given her as a halfling – Suzaku might not have noticed where her gaze had fallen or the flush that rose to her cheeks, but the imp certainly did.<br/><br/>"<em>You</em>, however, are quite right, of course," the devilish creature told Mei-Li, flashing her a sharp-toothed grin. "So, Suzaku, was it? Suzaku, why don't you jump down into that pit like a good lad?"<br/><br/>Mei-Li could feel the power, the weight of his words, sending thrills racing along her spine. Suzaku, though, much to Zetaz's surprise, gritted his teeth, spitting out, "Not on your life, fiendish filth!"<br/><br/>Grimacing, unpleasantly surprised that the rookie paladin rejected his mind-control, Zetaz took to the skies with a beat of his wings, climbing higher and higher, out of the reach of Suzaku's broadsword and Mei-Li's kama.<br/><br/>"You won't escape to blight others, deceiver!" Suzaku declared dramatically as he threw down his shield and sword, drawing a shortbow, but though he loosed an arrow at the cackling crimson fiend, his aim was not so prodigious as his willpower, Zetaz evading the missile with offensive ease.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Zetaz is in midair roughly 25 ft. above you. Normally his movement would have provoked AoOs, but as his initiative was higher than either of you, you were both flat-footed and so could not take any AoOs.</div></div>