Mina manages to get to her feet long enough to allow the manacles to be removed from her through sheer perseverance and a bit of luck. She looks like she is about to mouth a word of thanks over to Cris, when a blade starts descending down toward her with the force that could only be used in cutting somebody to ribbons. Her big eyes go all the wider when it suddenly descends into some sort of barrier and is repelled away from her porcelain skin. Something magical was in the way, something protecting her. She quickly realizes that the man thinks that she was behind it - something that she had no desire to particular confirm nor deny. Perhaps it was better to think that she had some sort of real trick up her sleeves.<br/><br/>Mina instead slinks behind Cris, not trusting the magical shield hovering in front of her alone and wishing she had more protection at the moment. She reaches into the depths of herself for a few moments, letting words of power and gestures flow through her body in a way that she knew was from beyond her own nature. She had trusted in this before - it helped soothe her wounds when she was injured from the rough treatment that a concubine sometimes was subject to. She had practice with that inner gift on occasion since and had previously found something that had bolstered her through rough times, pushing aside fear and pain in favor of courage. It seemed like what was needed right now.<br/><br/>She focuses out the bolstering of courage and strength out to everyone that she can reach that seems to be acting in their favor. Malia, naked but for a strange blade she had acquired in combat with the horrible Watcher. The strange elf that had been so quick to throw himself into the fray with his muscular form. The thieving woman who had somehow been saved from execution only to throw her chances away for the sake of Mina. Her own bared form, a small and petite figure on a battlefield of brutes. All could use a splash of this power right now.<strong>"I will mend your wounds and give you courage! We can really be free of this fate!"</strong>she cries out, her own heart soaring as she sees the opportunity they have been given.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>No Action:</strong> 5-ft step away from the guard trying to strike Mina, ideally toward or behind Cris.<br/><strong>Standard:</strong> Cast <em>Bless</em>, hopefully with range to impact Malia or Ox.</div></div>