<strong>Ellen</strong><br/><br/>The riders whirled around the pair of adventurers and tentatively loosed their arrows upon them. Ellen blocked one, and Rath shrugged one off without much effort. After witnessing the ghost dismount another one of the Genasi, Rath said with a wide grin, "Music to my ears, Lady Ellen." and bolted off to break the circle forming around them. He plunged his short sword deep into a griffon's chest, although the half-celestial suffered a nasty bite for his efforts. Gritting his teeth in revenge, Rathael got in another stab at the Griffon before it flew away.<br/><br/>The young man concentrated as before, closing his eyes and magically closing some of his wounds as Ellen drew nearer. The riders shifted their formation to keep the man and woman in the center as they sent more arrows Rath's way. The ghost brought two more Genasi to the earth as her companion went hither and thither, inerrantly striking at the riders as they passed by.<br/><br/>Finally getting back to the battlefield, the female air Genasi began to shout and gesture. Rath was too far and too preoccupied with the fighting to translate, but Ellen could tell just by her sharp gesticulations that the woman was trying to direct her soldiers to go on the offensive again and engage Rathael directly in close combat. The Ghost concentrated on the woman's figure as she directed, and down she went plummeting back to the ground.<br/><br/>Seeing this turn of events, one of the riders previously contemplating retreat took his leave, soon followed by his companion. Curses and shouts followed, but there was noticably less opposition than before. They were beginning to have those same doubts...<br/><br/>Bout after bout, Rath crossed paths with the remaining riders as they flew past one another. And always he came out better off than his opponent, his sword inflicting more damage than even the griffon's retaliaton. After greviously wounding another mount, Rath flew off in search of another opponent. That rider lowered his head to the griffon's own, and as if to commune with it... they flew off to the east.<br/><br/>Like a snowball, the departure and wounding of one of their allies led to another's flight when he too suffered a biting injury. When the female Genasi finally returned to their altitude, all of her companions had fled, some without even suffering a single stroke of Rath's blade. She circled around them, the sole remaining member of the formation surrounding Ellen and Rath.<br/><br/>And she was<em>not</em>pleased, but the woman would not balk in the face of these odds. Even abandoned by her compatriots and facing the pair alone, she fixed a steely glare of conviction upon the adventurers.<br/><br/><strong>Leander</strong><br/><br/>"Nnph!" Liah let out with a sardonic smile. 'An honor indeed.' She thought, closing her eyes as she lowered her head and reeled from each hard impact he made upon her relatively smaller frame. They rutted and rutted, the woman all the while suppressing her vocalizations of pleasure and delight as they shifted positions.<br/><br/>'On the rocks' as they were, she displayed somewhat less hardiness than the elf, letting out a playful "Oomph." as she suddenly jolted upwards and removed a rock from underneath her belly and threw it off to the side. She stuck out her tongue, almost as if to encourage the elf to keep going regardless of her own comfort.<br/><br/>She was having fun, though ...in a miserable sort of way. Leander could imagine this posh adventuress was more accustomed to fine silk sheets and luxurious salted baths than getting with an elf in the jungle so far away from civilization. When his fingers weren't focused upon pleasuring her sex, she did the job herself... with furious ardor. When his hands were not upon her breasts, the human woman rubbed her nipples herself, moaning all the while.<br/><br/>In a natural lull of their 'love-making', they were both very still as the elf slowed down to prolong the ecstacy. Liah removed herself from his member, still panting as she sat down beside him. "Ahh." She cooed, licking her lips as the adventuress put her hands behind her straight hair and tossed it from her shoulders, "I needed that."<br/><br/>She all too easily assumed her aloof demeanor again, acting as if they<em>hadn't</em>spent the last few moments sweatily fucking. Liah was even playing dumb to his quite prominent erection, in doing so she was flat-out denying the service it had done for her so recently. She looked at her nails, stretching one corner of her mouth into her cheek as she scrutinized them, "Although I still don't feel any cleaner." She sighed, turning her gaze back to Leander's own.