Rae'liel - The Honored Guest

As Serphia struggled to free herself from the rubble, the Paladin stood guardedly in wait with her shield and sword at the ready. Assuming she understood the temperament of this captain well enough, she knew all too well that a counterattack was inevitable. What she did not expect however, was the attack from behind by one of her underlings! Affording little more than a gasp in surprise as she was flung over the warrior's shoulder and crashing into the ground, the moment of disorientation she experienced was all that her new opponent needed as her sword was sent skittering across the floor.

Raising her gauntlets instinctively, fists met steel until the woman suddenly departed from her assault entirely, giving way to the larger figure, obviously the Captain in another frontal assault. This in itself was successful, the first lunge feeling almost as it bisected Rae'liel as she tumbled and rolled away from the impact, granting just a moment to catch her breadth. 

A moment was all that she needed.

The Blood Elf still held an advantage; she still had her shield. Regaining her equilibrium just in time, she dipped low as the Captain lunged at her akin to the savage animals they so held in reverence. The bottom edge of her shield soon slid beneath Serphia, and in an easy transfer of gracious momentum, she lifted the heavy defensive instrument from beneath the Night Elf, and she soon crashed headlong into the wall that had been right behind the Blood Knight.

Breaking into a run towards her weapon as the Captain once again struggled to free herself from the rubble, the Sin'Dorei deftly snapped her sword back into her grasp and whipped it violently towards Serphia. Twisting end over end as it whistled through the air, it did not strike the Night Elf, as she wasn't its intended target. Rather, it was her cloak. Sinking hilt deep into the wall and pinning Serphia's cloak with it, the Blood Elf had the fortune of pinning her in place for at least a moment. A moment that she needed to be afforded as she rushed towards her adversary once again. 

Breaking into close range once again, the Sin'Dorei slipped beneath an oncoming fist thrown out of fury, and then rose akin to a fickle flame. From below, the hardened edge of her heavy shield would contact the Captain's chin in an absolutely vicious uppercut. Forcing her head to snap backwards and her body to stumble back in a dazed state, the Sin'Dorei did not hesitate in the least. Whipping about in beautiful footwork, the Shield came around in a second pirouette that took full advantage of her current stance and connected with devastating force to the stunned Captain's exposed ribcage.

With a second resounding clang, Serphia was forced to be sent flying through a wall again, this time likely with a broken rib or two, and the collected composure of the Paladin only offered one response. A small gob of blood was spit from between her lips and stained the carpet next to Serphia as she nursed a new traumatic injury. 

"This fight is ov-" 

[B]THUNK![/B]

A new sharp pain cut the Sin'Dorei's words short as she desperately looked to her back and instead found the shaft of an arrow jutting from her shoulder. First there was confusion as to who it had come from, and the culprit was found soon enough. Falaani, that accursed failure of a guard had found a hole in her armor and had taken advantage of it fully to protect her mistress. For all the pain that she had been dealt, she didn't notice however, the paralytic venom that seeped into her veins from the Night Elf's arrow. 

Dropping to her knees as she suddenly found it insanely difficult to breathe, the calm resolution finally held a faint trace of despair. Only to see a Vase suddenly shatter out of nowhere as her shield fell clattering to the ground.

"P-Poison....you....ngh! Coward." Were her last defiant words as she collapsed unconscious from both the wounds she had sustained and the venomous arrow combined.