<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3e/Slave_guard_flipped_gray.jpg)<br/>The guards<br/></div></div><br/>With a savage war cry, Drejda charges the nearest guard, declaring him prey and opening a dizzying wound along his arm from which blood starts to well, a flick of the blade casting blood across the chest of one standing next to him. Shaken, the injured guard manages to counter attacker attack, drawing a small prick of blood, but then his companions close in to help. The naked slave girl dances, lithe on her feet and unhindered by armour. She holds herself well, but as good a warrior as she is, it looks like she will be overwhelmed, but not easily. A second attack on the injured guard fells him, Drejda having forgotten about not killing them as her dagger pierces his neck. She leans into the attack, pushing the blade past, and into the shoulder of the adjacent guard, pushing the point through the chain shirt. The three guards swing at her, two daggers and the improvised club, the co-ordination basic but enough to bypass her defences. She is already bleed from several slashes on her belly, with a nasty bruise forming on her thigh.<strong>“A little help Gothar?!”</strong>one of the guards demands from Lilian, the sight of his fallen companion making him nervous.<br/><br/>The two slaves can still hear something down the corridor ahead, but no other guards appear, for now.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Back in the dungeon, Alianda and Brynndirs work to bend iron with rope and wood. It is not easy, but they have the collective strength to slowly defeat the bars, a groaning, fraction of an inch at a time. The only problem is materials they are using breaking first, and Kendal needs to abandon her efforts to build a barricade to continously cast a cantrip of mending on the rope and club. A small sacrifice, as the smuggler lacked the strength to shift much of the furniture, and a lot of it was bolted down. Still, the doorway is barely obscured by a spanking bench of greasy pale wood, the guards will have minimal trouble entering when they show up.