You do not allow yourself to be affected by the nymph’s supernatural beauty, but you will be surely examining it in greater detail once this battle is over. Meanwhile your lash of the stingray, driven now by your hand with the intention of inflicting damage, not just pain. The barb rips into the bear's thick hide, matting its fur with blood, but unfortunately the beast is not blinded, merely enraged. Lelika finally manages to draw her blade and, wrestling with the bird, slices the steel edge across the feathery plumage of its chest. "I demand a crimson tide!" she incants, the magic in her wounds producing a flow of blood far more dangerous than the shallow cut would otherwise have made. The hawk cries in distress, until it catches the nymph’s eyes, which seems to clam it. Then it takes off and flies away from the half-elf, nearly taking a finger with it and deftly avoiding her annoyed swipe at its fleeing form.<br/><br/>The nymph approaches you, and if the beauty of this fey can outmatch that of any mortal, so can the look of wrath engraved upon her face. You can feel her anger seething in the very air you breathe and it is an effort to move, even as the bear rears up on its hind legs to embrace you in a crushing hug. Lelika moves to help you, but whilst he was not blinded by her first proper view of the fey, she was distracted. If you could only move, you could easily sidestep this clumsy attack…<br/><br/>Out of the cave mouth, an arrow flies at your half-elf apprentice, but misses by a good 4 feet. The noble’s tracker has made his appearance, although based on his crude bow of wood and woven plant hairs, his presence will hardly be a factor.<br/><br/>OOC: You need to make a DC: 17 fortitude save or be stunned for 6 rounds. As usually you drop your weapon and cannot act, but furthermore the drop in your AC allows the bear's claw attacks to hit you, so you also take 23 damage and make a two grapple check vs. the bear's 25 and 33 or be grabbed, no worse affect if both fail. Basically, don’t fail that fortitude save.