Rhazii's panicked mind was too addled by his beast spirit to know how to properly react to the approaching ice spike. His immediate reaction was to duck his head and raise one of his grown arms. He heard the spell impact in front of him and opened his eyes to see that Fendros had jumped between him and the final wispmother image. The ice spike was sticking out of his upper arm as he turned around to Rhazii with bared teeth.

The wispmother was being engaged by most of the pack at this point. Fendros opted to wrap his teeth around the scruff of Rhazii's neck and drag him to safety. Rhazii was large enough that he tried to walk along, but his feet frequently slid on the ground without effect under Fendros' trained strength.

They reached an outcrop that would provide cover and Fendros dropped Rhazii into it. He then pat the ground in a sign to hide himself and growled the word [i]"down"[/i] through his teeth. Rhazii obeyed, dropping prone. It wasn't until he hit the ground that he realised how much the initial magic had hurt. He began to whine in pain and shame when Fendros galloped back to see whether the wispmother had been destroyed yet. Rhazii noticed that the ice spike had made Fendros begin to bleed and limp, however long that would last.