Lorien watches as the two dire bats hurt his friends and he instinctively reaches for his bow. However, he soon realizes that he dropped it on the cavern floor after taking out his wand. He looks across the cavern to where it lies and shakes his head in disbelief. Stupid, he thinks. Watching Caerth wild shape into the snake seems to confuse the dire bat above it, for a moment.
Lorien stops singing and reenters the fray while drawing his longsword, risking the wrath of one of the dire bats, moving to help Caerth. It lashes out at him and he gets lucky. The bat hits a small rock formation instead of the bard. The bard strikes out with his sword and scores a hit against the flapping foe.