"Auuugghhh...." Liaena groaned miserably into the floor, the cold snow doing its best to sooth her poor maimed nose. Raising her head slowly off the ground, she looked up at the struggling pair to see how the fight was coming along. 

It was proving to be short, and to the point. Astrid might have had multiple knives and professional experience, but Serphia's sentinels tended to have a hundred years training in hand-to-hand as a bare minimum, and considerable strength and girth on account of their size on top of that. Liaena winced as Ashei laid a blow into the unfortunate rogues stomach and Astrid doubled over with a gasp. [i]"...yeah, you should really have upped your dosage. Guess it didn't cater for Night-Elves"[/i]

-BANG-
-THUMP-

*splat*

Liaena was climbing slowly to her feet, using the wall of the building to steady her as Astrid collapsed into a crushed heap at Ashei's feet. The Night-Elf was polishing her bloody gauntlet thoughtfully as she looked over to Liaena. "Sorry, human. You all look the same to me"

"Mmh" Liaena said in response to that. Looking over at the rogue, Ashei followed her gaze. "...What're you going to do with her?"

"Weeell...I guess I'll keep it for now. Mistress did say she wanted another assassin, to replace that other one that got lost" Ashei said thoughtfully after a long pause. Scooping the assassin up, Astrid hung limply over one arm as she turned to go. "Come along human. It was this way, wasn't it?"

Liaena limped up behind her, quietly pulling out her dart gun to level it at the non - armoured small of her back. "Yes"

"Oh, goo...ooooooood"

"...sorry" Liaena told the Night Elf slightly apologetically as Ashei subsided into a snoring heap on the ground yet again, spilling Astrid out of her arms as she did so. Crouching down beside the rogue, Liaena started to search through the other womans clothes, discarding any daggers, guns, garrotes, or any otherwise violent and/or pointy things and putting them into a nice little heap next to the Night Elf. Any jars of powder, or vials, she put into her own satchel, for later. After she was done she pulled out a little vial of shrink potion, forcing it into Astrids mouth to shrink the woman to a tiny doll sized figure, putting her into the other sock of the pair and tying it off to place it in her pocket. Lastly, she pulled the unconscious Night Elf across the road to prop her against the wall of a nearby building and (mostly) out of the wind. 

That done, she turned her face into the blizzard again as she set off into the snow. Her face was throbbing bitterly, and her head was ringing from the fight earlier, but it was not just her condition that made it even more important to get off the street and into cover, but the Night Elf repercussions that were now almost inevitable to occur. 
[i]
"So much for a low profile..."[/i]

*

"Yes." Kathlin responded carefully, eyeing Rithrynn sitting opposite her as though the Night Elf was planning on lunging across the room to rip her throat at any moment, which did not appear to be that far from the truth. After a moments pause as she seemed to rethink the question, a crinkle appeared on her brow. "Well, no....that depends on what you define as, uh, "blown up". But she does have friends. Like...me"

"...."

"I work at the Cathedral" Kathlin volunteered helpfully after a pause, when it became obvious that Rithrynn had little interest in maintaining her end of the conversation, instead opting to stare at Kathlin like she was a vulture and the girl was a defenceless little baby rabbit. "That's how I know Li"

"She never mentioned [b]you[/b]"

"...Okay" the girl said somewhat awkwardly in response to Rithrynn's cold remark. In the hopes of defrosting the situation somewhat, she opted to give the elf a tentative smile. "She did tell me all about you, though"

"Really? What did she say?"

It was at Rithrynn's question that Kathlin clearly realised the hole she had dug for herself and cheerfully walked into, as her cheeks reddened noticeably. "Uhhhhhhhh....she said you were...her friend"

"...."

"And that you were...large" Kathlin mumbled into the floor when it became clear that Rithrynn was not planning on letting her off the hook. "and that you meant well, sometimes, and look--"

Breaking off, the girl shook her head as she gave Rithrynn a resigned look: "--couldn't you just ask [i]her [/i]this, when she gets back?"