[@Rai] Alexis watched in surprise as her arrow was caught by the man she'd shot at. That never happened before. The man then began to form his own bow out of some kind of shadowy magic, and Alexis realized that he definitely knew where she was now as she saw him take aim in her direction. She began scrambling to get out of the tree, climbing down as quickly as she could without falling. She'd only gotten down a few feet before the horde of arrows was let loose, and at that moment, she lost her grip on the branch she'd been holding to help her support herself. The branch she was standing on swayed dangerously as she tried to regain a handhold, which didn’t help her effort. She decided to try and get to the branch below her, jumping down after psyching herself out for a second. When she landed she almost lost her balance- but she pulled herself together and was able to stay standing. She was still too high up, and now there were arrows to deal with. One of the shadowy arrows lodged itself in the tree, right in the spot where she had just been standing before her jump. Quickly, she crouched down on her current branch, a silver force field forming around her body in a bubble as she did. She stayed there for a few seconds, waiting for the hail of arrows to pass. A few bounced off of her force field, and a few others punctured the thing before she let it break, a light rain of glittering silver energy falling through the trees as she checked around her for the best way for herself to get down. It seemed like the guy wasn’t going to shoot at them anymore. Good. She stood back up slowly and began to move towards the trunk of the tree, planning to shimmy down the rest of the way until she heard a loud CRACK- the branch she was standing on now began to break. [color=696969]"shoot."[/color] The branch cracked again as she tried to move to another one, and broke before she could reach it. She and the broken bough both began to fall to the ground many, many feet below. She tried to curl up as she fell through the branches, to make herself smaller so she wouldn’t hit [i]all[/i] the branches on the way down. Or at least that’s what she hoped for. She landed hard, a little ball on the jungle floor. She groaned as she began to try and sit up, a hand going up to a spot on her head where she'd hit something on the way down. At least none of the arrows had hit her, [color=696969][i]but I guess this tree had it out for me…[/i][/color] She smiled at the thought. It was stupid, she knew trees didn’t have any ulterior motives or anything like that, but she was just distracting herself ever so slightly from the throbbing in her head as she pictured the tree planning out its next little trick... A voice spoke from somewhere nearby, though she couldn't make out what had been said as she tried to stand, stumbling backwards into the tree's trunk as she used it to support herself. Her head was spinning, and as she tried to move away from the tree she found she couldn't walk straight. Suddenly, an arm wrapped around her and she was pulled into a supportive embrace. A person in a white cloak was helping her stay standing, helping her walk a few steps before it seemed they gave up on that. The person picked her up, beginning to carry her further into the jungle, away from the battle. Alexis didn't struggle against them. They looked like a member of Taxis, the green sun symbol of the healing faction sewn onto their cloak making that assumption a pretty safe guess. So, she assumed they were probably just moving her away from the fight because she was injured from falling out of the tree. The pain in her head (and common sense) also made it hard to want to try and get away from this person who was probably just trying to help her. She didn't really feel like she had any serious injuries though- other than the pain in her head and the general ache over her body from hitting the ground, she was fine. The one thing she did try to do was to see the face of the person carrying her, which was mostly hidden in shadow by their hood. They noticed her looking, and said something to her then. Alexis couldn't hear it, her world would be silent for a while because of the bump on her head, but she saw the person's lips moving for a second before a heavy sleepiness fell over her a moment later. She fell asleep in this person's arms, as they carried her into a small clearing, a glimpse of the moon and the clouds through the gap in the trees was the last thing she saw before her eyes closed. [hr] [color=000000](WIP- this part is what's been making this post take so long so I'm just gonna add it all here later. No one else can even see the actions in this part -it only affects Alexis- so I figure this is okay. I just didn't wanna hold people back anymore when the parts you all need have been done.)[/color] [hr] When Alexis woke she was alone in the clearing, lying on the ground with the stranger's white cloak covering her like a blanket. She sat up, noticing immediately that she felt a lot better than she had before falling asleep. Her head still ached slightly, but it was barely noticeable now. Overall she really just felt like she'd taken a nap and the pain went away. That Taxis person must have healed her and then left her to wake up here- hopefully they'd known it'd be a safe place. After a little bit of looking around, Alexis figured out which way she needed to go in order to get back to Sunfire and the battle, and so she set off. She got to the edge of the jungle and the battlefield before she ran into anyone else, and honestly she had no idea what to make of what she saw as she left the trees. A large portion of the field was on fire, black superheated flames erupting over the field. She froze in place at the sight, just watching as she tried to figure out what was going on. How long had she been gone? Who or [i]what[/i] was causing the fire, and which side were they on? Watching the scene, she couldn't tell. It seemed like anyone close-by the spreading fire was simply engulfed in flame. Eventually she remembered the mind-link. [color=696969][i]"Hey.. what's happening?"[/i][/color] Hopefully someone knew what to do about this. Hopefully they weren't all about to die.