The thump of the man's might hand upon his chest and his powerful, sure grin keened the monstrous mage's interest as her hand stayed the magic that had welled up from within her, but there would be time yet for her questions... just not now. The reply to his statement was but a steady nod, her fierce eye upon the man then returned to its focus upon Regina who had come to a halt down the hall. Whatever was transpiring there, the aging warrior and her knightly companions were about to encounter it as well.

"Hathaam." She spoke aloud amidst the noise of the servants who seemed to be whipped into a frenzy. The very air stilled around Sakaala, Sir Hepburnberg and Sir Erran, or so it seemed as her arcane invocation altered the fundamentals of reality for them. This manipulation of magic was no small feat, but this was the form the sorceress wielded most comfortably; aspects of its mystic power had become innate to her with time, such as her uncanny speed and almost precognitive ability.

As she moved, taking but one step even to the other men she moved like living lightning - to an observer unaffected, she seemed to blur with motion. Blade at an angle behind her, its grip firmly within her grasp, the enormous musculature of her savage form leaned into the movement with her free hand outstretched lightly. She had more than readied her mind and body, as while the forceful gust of wind waked around her having passed the halfling, rustling her tattered half-cloak and streamlining her golden fur to her body, she narrowed her attention upon the hooded man who staggered from the blow of a slamming door.

An open target as any, she unleashed an open palmed strike toward the center of his figure, hoping the surprise and momentum would wreck havoc upon him. Fingers curled and curved inward, the bite of the vicious elven blade in the other hand was not far behind if he so much as resisted in the slightest; the lioness was not about to kill the man unless need be, but she had a suspicion as she bore down upon him that injury to subdue him would not be what was called for.

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