“Please, keep your voice down” Kathlin implored the Night Elf, suspended as she was several feet above the floor as her feet dangled freely. Glancing around nervously, the girl saw a drunk Night Elf peek into the room that they had just crashed through, visibly shrug at the sight, and wander off clutching a bottle. 

[b]“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER!?”[/b]

“…Nothing!” Kathlin protested quickly. The girl noticed an eyetwitch from the Night Elf that strongly suggested that something extremely painful was inbound very soon, and raised her hands in a placating gesture. “I’m just….trying to help. I’m a friend of hers too”

In the small lull that this comment afforded her, Kathlin chewed on her lip worriedly as she considered the situation, before pointing a finger up at the Night Elf. “You’re Rithrynn, right? So if Liaena was….theoretically off doing something she didn’t want anyone else to know about, then it wouldn’t be [b]too[/b] bad for you to know as well? And you wouldn’t tell anyone else? Theoretically”

“……”

“…Could you just shut the door?” Kathlin suggested cautiously into the silence that greeted this pronouncement, pointing over Rithrynn’s shoulder at the entirely open doorway, door swinging open, for anyone to walk in and overhear the conversation. “…Then, I’ll explain. Promise” 

*

Liaena gave a yelp of surprise and pain as Ashei collapsed right on top of her, the little girl failing to step back quickly enough to avoid the falling elf. Pinned underneath the Night Elf, Liaena struggled to push the elf off, free herself and get to her satchel. [i]“This could be bad. Really, really bad. I didn’t thought she’d go that far!”[/i]

About to levitate the elf off her, and probably throw her at Astrid, Liaena hesitated at the last moment.

[i] “….”

“How much do I want to stay in character?”[/i]

*CLONK*

That moment of indecision had cost her dearly, as Astrid, having started to run after them the moment Ashei had hit the floor, had jumped over the Night Elf and walloped the little girl solidly around the back of the head with the blackjack. Liaena immediately crumpled into the snow as Astrid put all her strength into shoving the snoring Night Elf away with a grunt of pain, before leaning over to grab the unconscious girl by the collar. 

As Astrids fingers closed around her clothes Liaena suddenly leapt into life with a vengeance; latching onto the woman’s arm to pull herself to her feet as she tore herself free. The pain in her head was intense, but it didn’t stop her hitting out with all her strength for Astrids bad shoulder while the woman was still stepping back in shock at the unexpected assault. 

The resulting scream from Astrid was beautiful as Liaena gouged her fingers into the half-healed cut through the layer of bandages. The girl scratched, hit, kicked and punched at the other for all that she was worth as she bore down on the woman, hoping to overpower the rogue under the initial surprise attack of blows!