Alistair pauses and looks at Kristina as she elects to stay on the ground. He immediately heads back into the inn and runs up the stairs to the rooms facing this street. He bursts into the room and there is a cry as he bursts in on a female traveler bathing herself. He doesn't stop moving for the window as he says in  a calm tone. "Thousand pardons milady...but I need your window." He opens it and sits in the sill with his staff in hand. "You might want to take cover lass...we have gnolls afoot."<br/><br/>It is entirely likely that his spells would be better suited for the ground assault, however his frost bolt made a dandy ranged attack that could reach out a long distance. He also has the advantage of shooting over his group as opposed to trying to shoot through it.<br/><br/>The naked elven traveler tries to make herself very small in the metal bathtub knowing that a fight was about to break out.