If the gast attacks, parry and if that's successful, riposte. Then strike at him again.<br/><br/>If you'll give me warning in PM when Lydia is going to be attacked, I'll send back a parry attempt. Just 1 ripost a round, but she can do as many as 4 parries, or a combination of parries and AOO's. Her usual defensive action is to parry as there's an equal chance of beating the attack roll.<br/><br/>The one thing that I dislike about the deed is that you can't wait to see if the attack would of missed or not. A roll of 1 still has to be parried if I choose to do that before the roll is made.<br/><br/>In a nutshell, she's stuck in that position until Stella's pulled from it... Once the thing falls, Lydia will try to pull Stella though the open door and defend it.