Kyang had her jaw clenched as she leapt from branch to branch. As soon as the first set of arrows came from a flank, she stopped behind a tree trunk to cover herself. The thuds were quickly replaced by more whistling arrows coming from all sorts of directions. It was a chaos that left Kyang incredulous, but thankfully not in too much danger with her being so far up off the ground. [i]There can't be that many! This has to be some kind of trick...[/i]

As much as Kyang did not want to be separated from her companions, it was not much use to try and rally everyone now. Xin had run off at an impossible pace, no doubt to take on as many as he could, Liu had been left behind with an arrow in his shoulder and an unconscious suspect to tie up. That just left Torako. Where was she again?

Thankfully, Kyang found Torako by voice, but it was not a pleasant surprise to see what she was doing. She was approaching one of the armed bandits with a chide on her tongue as if she was talking to a child. [i]He's got a sword, you maniac![/i] Kyang had to resist the urge not to shout out at her.

No matter what Torako's plan for this bandit was, Kyang wasn't going to let Torako be cut up on the off chance that she was actually crazy. She found a lower branch to bound down from and pulled the sheathe from the blade of her glaive. When Kyang leapt down, she had her weapon held high in both hands. She attempted to bring the blade down onto the bandit from behind, hopefully to split his head right before she landed. Out of habit, she had a scream of defiance leave her throat while airborn, [i]"KYEEAAAAA!"[/i]