The leopard acted as a decent makeshift catapult, even if it did only hit the tree, and certainly not as hard as Xaih was anticipating. Oddly enough, the tree's bark acted as rubber to avoid further damage to the animal. In hindsight, she was thankful. Dorian was her opponent, not a woodland creature. Either way, the leopard had her most desired effect, which was to bring him out from behind the tree.

The movements were rather simultaneous. Xaih heard the crack of the tree's bark and acted with immediate caution. Rather than continuing to run in a straight line, as she was prior to the tree's collapsing, she shifted her path to the left just as the leopard darted in the opposite direction to avoid further conflict. Water still trailed beside her from the blades of grass she passed, and the moment he appeared from the presently falling tree, she intended to direct that water, that fury, right at him. With a final step with her right foot, she slammed it against the ground to push the water from the roots directly up to give her an added lift as she jumped into the air, a couple feet higher than an average person. The water, that was once trailing beside her, followed her every move. With this momentum, she thrust her left leg forward, causing her body to spin slightly as she moved through the air, although she remained facing him. Her right hand curled into a fist while she lifted her left hand so the palm faced Dorian's direction. This caused the water to break apart into four separate points and solidify into four ice spikes, which were pushed towards him with great strength. Since he was moving away from the tree, that had fallen at that point, two of the ice spikes were aimed at where Dorian was moving towards, rather than at his immediate location.

While she was in the air, Xaih did notice the movement of her opponent's hands, as she was certain he noticed hers. While preparing herself for a landing, her sight gazing upon the spot she would land, she spotted an unnatural movement in the grass. Falling closer allowed her to hear the familiar sound of roots moving, and she had to react quickly. Landing in the grass, she felt the blades begin to wrap around her feet. However, as she landed, she forced water up from the grass and quickly removed the water from that specific area. With the grass dead, the knotting sound would be quickly silenced, and she freed herself easily from their grasp. Another ring of water surrounded her for a quick defense, but something more had to be done.

It was rather odd Dorian knew exactly where she would land, and where she was headed despite being behind the tree. This action, combined with the leopard's earlier attack and his pet wolf missing in action, left no more room for coincidences.

She had to disappear. Quickly.

The ice spikes would have done their damage, or lack thereof, as Xaih moved to stand upright, leaving space a bit larger than the width of her shoulders between her feet. She moved the ring of water down to the ground quickly to combine with the water from the surrounding blades of grass within a few feet radius of her location. Lifting her arms up, more water raised from the ground in wall-like structures, and she stood in the center of that. With forceful, but direct, movements of her arms down and inward, the water turned into a dense mist that covered her and the distance between her and Dorian. Rain started to fall not moments before Dorian revealed himself, which would either add difficulty to her plan or aid her.

For the time being, she sought the dead grass as refuge. While she resided within the mist, she would move in small steps in apparent randomness; forwards, backwards, to the side. She continued to remove water from the ground, and forced the mist to behave as though it were rapidly expanding. This was done, along with other reasons, to give her a similar advantage she picked up on Dorian. While he was connected to the nature around them, through plants and, evidently, animals, she was connected to the water. The density of the mist was certainly not a problem for her.