[quote=@Freeshooter92]
 He also thinks Athalus is a dirty coward, and was counting on him to sprint away, not (reasonably I may add) sit mostly still in shock. He has basically misjudged everything.
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 Althalus normally would have ran for his life(because when the guy who attracts all the attacks leaves, you leave too!). But since he's seen wild Mages before(his brother and his brother's goons, not to mention the Kid), and the fact that he had missed when he shouldn't have, made him twitchy and mistrusting, uncertain what to do.

And we all saw what happened then. XD