[@Stabby] [@Zeroth]

Femus found himself frowning.  He had hoped this mess would be resolved efficiently, for his sake, and with minimal violence for the sake of his new ally.  She seemed... a little too hung up on gentleness.  But, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.  It was just... inconvenient in a dangerous place like this.  Also... he didn't have a chance to try and make what he had gathered parts for.  If he was right then he should be able to concentrate certain types of local mana into these components and then link them, though he wasn't sure how to accomplish that.  That link might allow him to create an array that would concentrate mana and aid the magic recovery of those inside as well as any magical herb growing or perhaps item enchanting that might be needed.  Hopefully the parts of this old tree would be enough of a start since the tree had a stronger than average mana level on its own.

But, his frown was doubling down as another pixie entered the picture with typical mischief and then proceeded to head in Femus's own direction.  Was his luck really this bad or was this supposed to be a good thing...?  Bah, didn't matter.  Nira called for him to 'mess with' the thieving pixie.  It was almost certain that he could knock it out of the sky with a mana orb right now but that wasn't what Nira seemed to be asking for.  Oh, well.  At least what he did with Lesser Force was less destructive.

He focused his Lesser Force into two actions that he would take as soon as the thieving pixie got close.  The first would grab either the pixie's wing or hair and yank down hard.  The second would strike a hard and focused strike up the line defined by the inner thigh, aimed at the crotch.  Honestly, Femus wasn't sure that this would hurt any more than a strike to the critter's leg but it would be important to know this kind of thing and this attack would almost certainly hurt the critter and leave it alive.  As soon as the strikes were accomplished he flashed an angry and territorial red as though he had simply been disturbed by the pixie's antics and was one more surly wisp.

Hopefully, this wouldn't escalate further.  If it did, Femus really didn't have many non-lethal tricks up his... ... glowing ball sleeve.