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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1480846" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 3 - Part 2Dais scowled, a strange look on the young soldier’s normally pleasant face.  He drew his sword, and brought his shield to the ready.  The sound of his blade being drawn, alerted the assassins. The door ahead of the trio slammed open and two men in a row came rushing through the door, scimitars drawn with masks covering the lower half of their faces.  Murder was in their eyes.Dais narrowed his eyes, and brought his shield up to ward off a strike, as the scimitar slid of his light steel shield.  He gave his attacker ground and then unleashed a powerful slash that caught the man off guard and slid under the attacker’s chin, severing the head cleanly from the shoulders.  The headless corpse continued on forward pass Dais, spilling blood on Thane who nervously watched the second thug slash his scimitar into the young soldier’s right leg.Lain rolled past the attacking thug, rolling to her feet and stabbed her blade into the thug’s back slipping the blade into vitals.  He gurgled, as Thane gathered his wits and called upon his Immortal’s strength to bless his comrades and himself in the battle and bring them victory.  Lain quickly ripped hr blade from the thug’s back as Dais ran him through, ripping the blade out quickly, spilling entrails as the thug collapsed to his knees and died.  Dais could feel the strength of Thane’s divine magic coursing through him, strengthening his resolve despite his injury.Everything was silent, besides the tense breathing of the trio.  The calm ended when the third assassin struck.  He stepped into the doorway; a crossbow raised and sunk an arrow into Lain’s shoulder, causing her to stumble, but even more insidious was the slow numbing feeling traveling down her limb, and the rest of her body.  Lain collapsed to her knees, as she tried to focus and fight the poison, but it was a losing fight.Lain gurgled out, “Poison…”Dais narrowed his eyes, and advanced forward as the assassin tossed aside the crossbow and drew a dagger and a scimitar allowing the young soldier to come to him.  Thane moved quickly to try and remove the bolt from Lain’s shoulder; once it was free he set to the task of trying to stave off the poison, and hopefully save her from more severe effects of the poison.Thane glanced up to see Dais and the assassin in the midst of a vicious melee neither giving any quarter, as the nimble assassin used both of his blades to great effect, spinning and parrying with a dazzling display of grace, staying on the defensive as Dais pressed the attack.  Where Dais struck, the assassin’s blades were there to deflect another powerful strike, and turn away his blade, but to the young soldier’s credit, his shield had kept him free from harm during the vicious melee, but the injury to Dais’ leg was hampering his footwork, and he had to give more ground then he would have liked.Thane seeing this, made a quick decision.  He stood and chanted a quick incantation and then allowed the divine power of his chosen faith to flow through him, his hand taking on a soft glow as he gently applied it to Dais’ shoulder.  The healing divine magic surged through the lowlander and mended the wound in his leg with great speed and alacrity.  Dais grinned as he sidestepped the assassin’s slash and brought his blade into his opponent’s side, crunching bone, and rending flesh.The assassin stumbled clutching his side, and retaliated with a quick slash from his scimitar.  Dais raised his shield only to fall prey to the dashing dagger that sunk deep into his shoulder.  Dais spun back from the attack, and brought his blade in a wide arc, slicing through the assassin’s gullet, dropping the thug to the floor.  Dais though unbalanced fell against the wall breathing hard, despite the pain he ripped the dagger from his shoulder and threw it aside in contempt.“How is she?” Dais finally muttered, the adrenalin in his system finally subsiding between deep, nourishing breaths.“She will live, the poison’s worst effects I hope have been staved off, she will limp for some time yet, we had best get her to a place where I can properly care for her,” the disciple replied.  He smiled though, “You fight like a trueborn, I am quite impressed, Dais.”Dais nodded, “Good, I would not forgive myself if she died, because of my decisions.”Thane paused, taken aback by the lowlander’s words, “It is rare to see such compassion.”“Compassion?  She may have a checkered past but she has a good heart, and has stuck her neck out for me, a complete stranger, I think she is more noble then even she realizes,” Dais replied as he struggled to stand.  He helped Thane get Lain to her feet and the trio stumbled out of the dwarven dwelling and into the streets, though this time with more of a crowd as the denizens of the district watched with burning curiosity at the battered and bloody trio.Dais scowled as he scanned the crowd for the dwarf that had led them into the trap but no such luck, he picked Lain up and cradled her in his arms.  Thane looked surprised, “Are you sure you wish to carry her by yourself?”“I can manage,” he said to Thane before turning to the crowd, and walking forward, in slow unsteady steps but his resolve grew, and the pain fell away as he focused his mind on trying to find shelter for his companion.Thane smiled gently to the gathered dwarves, “I am Brother Thane Madrigal, a disciple of Alharra the Maiden of the Dawn, we seek shelter, an inn would be sufficient and perhaps pass a message to Lord Ironroot’s protectors that we have information for them.  We did not mean to cause such a disturbance, but it could not be helped.”Several of the dwarves listening murmur amongst themselves.  They do not respond for several minutes as Thane fumbles along to catch up with Dais, as he carried their night elf companion.  The dwarves seemed suspicious but soon one of them stepped out of the crowd and spoke in a deep baritone, “If you seek shelter, then follow me, I know a good discrete place,” he grabbed a younger dwarf, “boy run and give the Diamond Guard the message lad, and be quick about it.”Thane smiled, “Alharra be praised, you have done us a great service.”“Call me Gorn, it not be much to be thanked for, but if you got something for our lord to hear, he best know promptly yes?  Now this way, not far from here, just another block, hurry now,” the dwarf motioned for the trio to follow.</blockquote>

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