As Slith sneaks toward the cottage, Rallyn manages to telekinetically drag one of the snipers to his feet. He clumsily knocks an arrow but then it skitters wildly, missing his companion by a mere knuckle's length, twanging into the ground, with the arrow splitting up to the knock from the vibrations.
The group of snipers skitter around, bows drawn, pointing in random directions, trying to locate the source of this "attack" on them.
Meanwhile, under cover of this confusion, Slith manages to successfully sneak all the way to the stone walkway around the cottage. From personal experience, the group knows the cottage is 'U'-shaped. Half of the 'U' is personal quarters, half is indoors instruction, and a smithy, and the 'open' area in the center is a paved sparring area. In the wintertime, as it is now, the center has a canvas cover.
Inside the covered sparring area, stands Serbanas. Slith can clearly see he's injured, as he's naked to the waist, with slick gory marks of arrow wounds notched into his skin. In his hands Serbanas holds some odd weapon, a great two-handed pole-weapon with a head shaped like a -- a coat rack?