The yellow halo around Sabine faded to reveal her healed, if still bloodstained body. However, no amount of restoration magic took away the terror in her face. She was struggling to breathe evenly, and she looked on at the enemies around her as they tried to find a way around her.

She tried to charge a spell. She yelled in frustration and directed magic to her manacles. She did not break them with physical strength. They simply burst apart. The steaming metal shards bounced to a stop on the ground around her. If that was not a great enough display of magical might, she directed the staff towards the flanking Argonian in turn. "Stay AWAY!"

With each word respectively, the Argonian was pulled up off the ground as if an invisible force had taken hold of his body before he was thrown tumbling across behind the shield bearer. With another scream, Sabine swung around and gave the Breton mage the same treatment.

It was in that moment that Sabine peered down at the staff and started breathing regularly, if still at a fast pace. All her limbs set off in tremors. In an effort to stay balanced, she planted the butt of staff into the earth and willed a powerful ward to bloom from its top. The ward curled all the way around Sabine and grew to form an impenetrable ovoid cocoon. The wavy and distorted surface was transparent enough to see her fall to her knees, holding onto the staff. The ward did little to muffle her heaving crying and weeping.

"We just wanted to show you the truth," She moaned between her sobbing, almost pleading. "We found the book in the Elsweyr fortress when we stormed it. We do not want to turn anyone into lycans. It just..." Sabine lowered her voice. "I am tired...Everything hurts...I cannot stop the pain...It hurts..."

With Sabine hanging her head and weeping so heavily, Arinette could recover from her paralysis with a few moments longer. Though unless she had a trick up her sleeve, nothing could get through Sabine's encompassing ward. And even if Arinette tried to destroy or take the book from Do'Rhajul, the damage had been done.