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The group of elves concelled themselves amongst the rocks, using the heat of the objects to absorb their heat signaturs, the rushing stream underneath to hide their movements from a tremor sensing. Using rags colored to match the rocks, and painting their flesh to match the rocks as well, the elves were practically invisible. Their quarry would never know what hit them.

Fin lay still, the youngest and most inexperiance member of the party, waiting for his turn to act in the very well planed ambush for the oncoming orc raiders.

Several months ago, an orc tribe seemed to get the idea that the purian elves were trying to destroy them, and marched upon the tribes of the peninsula. The elvish scouts picked up on the marches well in advance, and have been working to keep them away from the common elves as much as possible. Several warbands were formed to ambush marching orc warriors before they could reach the vulnerable and open areas of the south-western section of the penisula, south and east of the Triumverate Fortress.

The targets marched into the desinated area, and when the last orc had crossed the 'line', the ambush began. The elvish scouts suddenly appeared about the larger orc force, and shouted their war cries and noises, wailing a barrage of javilins upon the orcs. The missiles hit many of the brutes, and killed a few, causing a tremendous shock to the orcish morale. The elves followed their iniatal attack with a charge, lances ((any spear that is not thrown is a lance)), swords, and axes flailed about causing destruction and death. The orcs were overwhelmed by the ambush, and hopelessly slaughtered by the elves.

The scouts gathered amonst the carnage, some keeping watch for any additional orcish scouts that may have gone of to look for those killed by another member of the elvish warband.

They spoke softly, trying not to make too much noise after causing such a commotion. The silence was broken when the severed head of the elvish scout who's job was to elimiate the orcish scouts fell amonst them. Weapons were readied, and the elves stood in a circular formation, watching for signs of an attack. The space around them seemed to distort for a moment, when suddenly a large dark mass of cloud and panther flesh pounded into the group, taring into the elves rather brutally. The ambushers had become ambushed. The elves reacted with haste, quickly adjusting themselves to meet this new challange, but their formation only increased the speed in which their new foe slaughtered them. The creature batted aside lances and swords, clawed through flesh and bone, even bit several throats and skulls.

Fin lunged his spear at the thing, but two long tenticals wraped around him, and casually tossed him into a nearby stream. The elf hit his head hard on a rock, and fell unconcious, unaware of the destruction that befell his unit. All of the other elves in the warband were slain by that Greedy foe.

She stared at him for a long moment and then chuckled shaking her head and backing up. And just like that the spell was broken. "No, I don't. But I'm sure I could get one together in a hurry." Heading over to her table again she glanced around. "Enter at your own risk..." She hadn't thrown any books at anyone in a long time..ever since she'd been in Andal. Tucking that stray piece of hair behind her ear she set Nym down on the table and bent to scribble something down on a pad before glancing back at him. "How have you been Sevilin? Enjoy your time to yourself?"

She was mentally going over things until he started talking and then she listened though she was still multitasking with her plans. "Same old thing gets boring after a while so it's actually understandable." She didn't ask about Arthur though her memory was jogged and she wondered if he had changed at all in the time they'd been gone. It wouldn't be a hardship to go see him though it might give him the idea she returned his affection. Now where had that thought come from? Since when did she care what men thought? She gratefully grasped his question and smiled, "I'm fine and everything else is fine." She made it a point not to address the child as anything that might tie her to it. Picking up a stack of books she walked over to the bookshelf and began to put them away until she only had two or three left which got set down on random shelves while she lifted up onto her tiptoes to shove them where they belonged. "It's been six months. Isnt' that normally when it becomes apparent?" Was she off or something? Was the ba...it growing faster than it was supposed to?

She didn't even think about it just nodded, "Everything's fine. Don't worry, I had plenty of people to fuss over me in Andal. Tehy wouldn't have let anything happen to me regardless of the situation." It was good to know that she wasn't strange. "Three? It's been six, half a year...hasn't it?" Her mind wandered off in that direction for a moment, thinking. She shoved the last book into the shelf and teetered for a moment, off balance but reached for the shelf and held on to keep herself from falling backwards. That would have been embarassing. Turning to face him she inclined her head. "Thank you. So do you." And then right back over to her table where she started going through papers.

A little perplexed blink as she had rather calmly and positively responded to his little blurted out compliment. And she ever returned one to him...which he didn't know how to feel about either. Yeah this was....yeah. A shrug. "I liked your hair shorter though..." You can stop giving opinions now, there's no point in it. You're just trying to further conversation. "Only three here...but planes times differ. Not uncommon." And to that he waved a dismissive hand.

"Well..go to know you were taken care of. If you...need anything...well...yeah..." And he turned on his boot heel to start leaving the room, there was really no point for him to be around her was there? No, she seemed to have everything under control. "I'll just...leave you be then." He could entertain himself...surely. He didn't need attention from anyone.

Her voice had him stopping for a moment to turn slightly and look at her. Was that self conciousness he was seeing in her? He shrugged lightly. "Just giving my opinion...short suited you is all." Why was this horribly awkward. Ah yes, he wasn't used to even attempting to try and care for someone else. Well...someone who already had well formed opinions and what not.

A raise of an eyebrow at her. "I never said you did..." Now why would she say that? But her only got more perplexed as she continued on. "Lessons? I'd think you wouldn't want anything to do with those...last I checked you would come up with any excuse you could to get out of them..."

He rubbed at the back of his neck a moment. "Right...sorry to have bothered you..." Uh huh...this was just weirder than usual. But there was nothing else to say was there? Seeing as she had just practically dismissed him. Thus giving a sigh and turning once more, this time actually making it out of the room. That went horrible...not good at all really it seemed. Sevilin was realizing that he wasn't sure how to handle this...and that was a new thing entirely to him.

Hey he was just as surprised and was trying to get out of her way...if she would stay in once place like she was supposed to this wouldn't happen. But all she got out of her anger was a little frigthened chitter from him as he left his socks and ring where they dropped and squeezed under the couch to hide as she more or less threw a fit and objects. Where did the happy just go?