"Hold! Close ranks!" Gallus had his group refrain from pursuing the enemy before there could be collisions with Ri'vashi's central lines. The fight for the courtyard was over. The walls were almost taken. Now came the next hardest part after opening the gate; taking the keep.

Gallus took Uthri and Peiter with him to reunite with Ri'vashi and assess the situation. "How are we going to get through that?" Gallus asked with a raised voice, though not sounding cynical in the slightest. "It's too tight for the Senche-rahts to fight. We'll need the mages."

The eyes of Janius' opponent clenched shut for an instant with Meesei's first bolt against the enemy mage beyond. Janius roughly the timing of Meesei's follow-up spell and used the flash to take his opponent by surprise. When the second bolt crackled along beside them, Janius wrapped his leg around the enemy swordsman's knee and shoved him to one side. The swordsman was tripped off balance for long enough for Janius to run the blade of his axe along his throat.

The wall continued to be taken, though at a faster pace this time. The loss of the courtyard was affecting the morale of the defenders noticeably.

Lorag's words turned both Janius and Fendros' heads to what he was looking at. The Khajiit on the balcony was the largest they had ever seen, short of a Senche-raht. Lorag wasn't lying about the physical bulk of his former commander. They could only hope that accounts of his tenacity were more exaggerated.

With no more targets in the courtyard, Fendros drew an arrow and aimed up at the commander. He didn't think much of it when he loosed his arrow -- he definitely knew that he wouldn't get through that armour. However, it would be interesting to see the reaction if his arrow could reach up to him. The implications of drawing attention to themselves did not come to his mind until the arrow was halfway through its flight.