<br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/r9juJQ3.jpg)</div><br/>Gwyndolin watched as the mer-folk reacted to her trick, the snarled grunts, the call to search her out, the readying of weapons. There was no smile on her face as she watched this, no feeling of pride or merth from tricking the fish people, nor was there any anger for them redirecting their fury towards her companions. No her face remained still....stoic...her breathing calm and measured, so much so that it quickly ceased to make a sound. Her gaze was focused intently on the murading merfolk, just like a hunter eyeing it's prey from the shadows. For that is exactly what she was, what she had been raised to be. Back in the Blackwood everything was about the hunt: the hunt for food, the hunt for companionship, the hunt for knowledge, the hunt for fulfillment...life was a great, long hunt, and this moment was no different than a hundred others that had played out before her. Even the trees standing tall around her reminded her of when she was young, of when she was not a member of this "civilized" world, but hunter, and a hunter alone.<br/><br/>Stop, seek, study, strike...the four basic components of any battle for a Canopy Witch. She had already made her way through 3 parts of this simple strategy, and when she saw the two guards flanking the leader stepped past her to approach her companions, and the lead fish woman stepped just right so that the sun would cast a long shadow behind her, all of their attention focused solely on those standing on the bridge, she was ready to enact the 4th. Without a sound she once again vanished into the shadows, and the other Delvers would suddenly see Gwyndolin rise up out of the lead fish woman's shadow, and in the blink of an eye wrap an arm around her chin and place her shadowy blade up to her throat, the solidified darkness proving to be just as sharp as any steel as a thin trickle of blood formed where the edge ever so gently pressed against the scaly skin of her neck. "Cease your attack at once or she dies...as will you all. It took me mere seconds to claim your leader's throat, how long do you think any of you will be safe from my shadows?" she threatened.