Question about the Bard's Impelling Force

[Stalker0]

I was rereading the bard, and the language of this power is very strange.

Its a slide effect that says you slide the target 5 squares to a square adjacent to an ally. But....there's no clause like on "come and get it" that says if you can't get them adjacent to you the power fails.

for example, let's say the enemy and my ally are on opposite sides of a cliff. Does the power force him to go over the cliff? (with a saving throw of course). Does the power never work because I could never have gotten the guy adjacent to my ally?

 

[themilkman]

My reading is that this power specifies a destination "adjacent to an ally" as well as a maximum distance for the slide "5 squares". If you can't get to the destination in the max # of squares, then the slide effect doesn't work.