[quote=Tyki]
at seeing the strangers and mihai'en's reluctance to hide shiro steps out of the bushes quietly, his sword drawn but held limply at his side as he second guesses his senses. had they failed him? unlikely, shiro had always been able to rely on his senses before, but if that was so then why did they fail him now? shiro ponders such things silently, remaining silent up to the point the first skeleton walks into the forest clearing behind him and thrusts a sword into him, catching him unaware due to his lack of faith in his senses that had been caused by the twin's appearence. shiro lets out a small cry of pain as he's stabbed through the chest, the sword peircing one of his lungs causing him to gasp for breath and choke as the injured lung fills with blood however, unfortunately the sword is left in due to the skeleton's inability to remove it causing shiro to fall over onto the ground as more skeletons fill the clearing and unlike the first's unfortunate state, these ones were armed and turning on both the twins and mihai'en
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It all happened so quickly, Mihai'en hardly had time to process what had happened. One minute, he was trying to make conversation with two strangers on the road, and in another his companion ended up bleeding on the ground.

"Shiro!" he shouted, unceremoniously. How they had been able to sneak up on them was a mystery. [i] Unless we were simply too distracted by these two for us to notice. [/i]

Whatever the case, Mihai'en unhooked the glaive from his back. Without skin, it wasn't much use, but it was better than nothing: polearms weren't designed to break bones, and a thrust through the ribcage would have met no resistance besides air. 

[i] Worth a shot, though. [/i]

Aiming for the nearest skeleton, he thrust his glaive into its stomach. It bounced off of it, pushing it backwards slightly, but otherwise the thing seem unaffected.

"Well, this is going well." Thrusting again, he managed to fit his spear through the ribcage of the creature. Forcing it upwards, he used the leverage to break some its ribs. Without a stable body structure, it fell down, almost comically. 

Out of nowhere, Mihai'en felt a sharp pain in his back. One of the skeletons had snuck up from behind, and slashed him across the back. He was wearing smallclothes at this point, so it broke skin rather easily.
A few weeks ago, that would have been unbearable, but as this point, he had faced worse. It stung a bit, but for now at least he was able to shrug it off. Adrenaline would keep the pain away for a while.

Still, it was pretty clear that for Mihai'en, at least, the battle was hopeless. There were a lot of them, and Shrio looked like he might be in serious trouble soon. Bumbling, he found Shiro on the ground, and helped him up. The sword was still stuck inside him, and Mihai'en knew from experience that pulling it out would cause massive bleeding. He knew he would have to run, but before he could lift Shiro to his feet...