“Nope” Kathlin uttered quietly, following Rithrynn’s line of gaze to stare at the extremely empty shoulder epaulet. “Maybe he fell in the sewer? If he was separated from us when you fell earlier, my levitate spell wouldn’t have included him…it requires touch range”
“Dammit! Shaww! SHAWWW!”
“Then again, he does have his teleport spells, doesn’t he?”
Kathlin added consolingly as Rithrynn turned around to start heading down the tunnel again back the way they had come. Cries of anger from the Night Elves that had been following them, showed very clearly their displeasure with Rithrynn attempting to push past them on the narrow ledge. “What are you doing!? Get back in line!”
One of them, Aleena, still dripping with sludge from her impromptu bath in the sewer, gave Rithrynn a good hard shove as the latter attempted to bulldoze past her. Feet sliding on the slimy stone cobbles, the Night Elf slipped with a scream into the sewer – only to start floating once more in mid-air as a levitate spell arrested her fall.
Meanwhile, down at the tail end of the queue of Night Elves, one of the elves apparently got fed up waiting for whatever was taking place up at the top and started to push forcefully at the girls in front of her. Feeling the effects of this up at the top, Aleena squealed as the elf right behind slammed into her and both started to fall towards the sewer!
“Ah…mind yourself , please”
Kathlin gasped as she grabbed onto Aleena’s shoulder, just as the elf fell past her on the way to a beautiful belly-flop. Both elves, both Aleena and the other she was tangled up with immediately stopped in mid-air, to also bob along above the sewer water. Kathlin gently disentangled herself from Rithrynn to step onto the ledge and safety, the strain of holding up three large Night Elves plus armour clearly showing on her face as she dragged the others after her. “Would you mind just holding still? Else…”
“This is your fault, stupid! Your monkies brought us into this cess pit!” Aleena cursed as she lashed out, clobbering Rithrynn across the chest with a sodden stinking fist. As the blow struck, the levitate spell dissolved around them and all three elves plummeted downwards, to land with an almighty great SPLASH.
“….you might, er, disrupt the spell”
Kathlin finished pensively as she glanced around the sewer. Humming a tune under her breath, she raised a hand that began to glow with a golden light. In the light cast by it, her eyes settled on a tiny elf that carefully ventured out of a corner now that the chaos on the ledge had abated somewhat. “Oh, hello Mr. Dal’dieb. Rithrynn will be glad that you’re safe”