Mayae froze when her connections to her girls failed, and began to panic when her magic disappeared. She screamed at Asheera down the familiar link, begging for her to come to her, expecting it to run into a wall as well. Crap, she thought, even her spell-like abilities were blocked. And she could not return like this, it was asking to be raped.<br/><br/>She headed further down the alley, trying to get to a back street where she could sneak back to the inn. Suddenly she stopped and felt at her neck for her pouch, where she had put the key along with a few items she kept for sentimental value, surely not even that, she thought.