“….Ow”
Liaena shook her head to try clear it of the deafening ringing in her ears as she slowly raised it to look around. Around her, Liam, Kathlin and Alissah was sprawled on the floor in varying states of consciousness. Bella was…

!

A few moments of frantic rummaging on the floor coated in rubble and dust was enough to locate the mini-priestess, Liaena stuffing her back into her pocket as she crawled onto her hands and knees. It only took a glance up and down the corridor to make their dire circumstances clear, as her eyes narrowed in hatred at one of the new arrivals. 

[i]“I swear I’ll kill you for this”[/i]

Despite the futility of their situation, Sherpa appeared to be no hurry to finish the job; the High Elf Death-Knight not-so-subtly being in full gloat-mode. Liaena crawled over to Alissah to produce a vial and dribble a few drops of liquid into her mouth. The effect was immediate as the assassins eyes shot open; Liaena narrowly escaped being shanked as she held a hand over the womans mouth, before gesturing with her eyes towards the corridor the big Death Knight was looming from. [i]“That way”[/i]

[i]“What?”[/i]

Liaena shook her head in exasperation at the moment of confusion she invoked in the assassin.[i] “….Oh never mind”[/i]

Sliding a small vial out of her sleeve to hold carefully between finger and thumb, Liaena whirled around suddenly to throw it with all her strength against the wall, where it smashed into a thousand pieces. The effect was immediate; with a rapidly expanding balloon of white shimmering smoke blossoming forth, filling up the corridor and rapidly obstructing all visibility in a grey mist. As the first tendrils reached the living White Hand guardsman, the men suddenly broke out in hacking coughs as the horribly corrosive gas invaded their lungs. 

“Whhha…?” Liam mumbled groggily as Liaena yanked him up and back against the wall, bedlam rapidly commencing as the Night Elves took advantage of the low visibility and their immunity to the mist. “What happened?”

“We’re leaving. Give Kitty this for the smoke!” Liaena hissed as she thrust a vial at him, the other girl already hacking up her lungs at his feet. “Get up! Death Knight incoming!”

“What?” Liam muttered as Liaena spun around at sudden movement from behind. Automatically bringing up her rifle to defend herself, she fired two gel rounds into the shadow that suddenly loomed from the smog towards them.