[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
The Hobgoblin died swiftly, only managing to cut Asteria’s cheek. She hoped it wasn’t poisoned. Mother rat got revenge on the mostly-if-not-already-dead greenskin by ravaging at him furiously, but once he was as lifeless as a ragdoll, she hurried to her offspring and licked her cheek. Asteria took the opportunity to gently touch the other’s injured shoulder – not directly on the wound, of course. Rather, she lay a paw around the stab wound. Activating Mana sense and concentrating on muscles and skin mending, she uttered, [color=F0E68C]“Minor Heal!”.[/color]

If necessary, she would cast the weak healing spell up to two times more on Mother rat, then, still using Mana sense to try and discern how it worked, she used it on her own cheek. She was careful with her mana levels, but she didn’t yet know how much the minor heal used. As a precaution, she used Mana Drain on the recently killed hobgoblin. She turned the corpse around curiously, investigating its equipment. The bloodingfly stinger which she’d used to kill it was dislodged next to it, bloody and battered. Asteria picked it up, turning it over and checking whether she could still use it. If she could, she’d wipe it on the corpse’s clothing and take it with her; if not, she’d search for one of the hobgoblins arrows and take that instead.

She then peeked from behind the barrow, focused on her sense of sight, and tried to discern how the fight was going. It seemed…fairly chaotic. Asteria sighed, but could only hope that a duo of Dire rats joining the fray wouldn’t immediately make them the targets of the people they were supposed to be protecting. Ed seemed fine in that regard, but who knew what the merchants would do with an unknown factor. After briefly patting her biological mother in a gesture of solidarity, Asteri once again actively used Muffle and dashed from behind the burrow, attempting to stay low and out of sight of her enemies. Her target was a staff wielding bandit, if it hadn’t been killed already. She didn’t think so, but first, she had to find and ambush it…

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Uses Mana sense while trying out her new Minor Heal skill on Mother rat.
Uses Minor Heal up to a total of three times on MR’s injured shoulder (depending on the efficiency of the skill) and once on her own cheek.
Uses Mana Drain on the dead archer hobgoblin.
Investigates the archer’s corpse. Inspects whether her bloodingfly’s stinger is still usable. If it is, she wipes it off on the archer’s clothes and takes it with her. If it’s not, she replaces it with one of the dead hobgloblin’s arrows.
Uses Beast Senses III: Sight to get info on the unfolding battle on Ed’s side.
Attempts to locate the mage bandit.
Actively using muffle, rushes out from behind the burrow, staying low to the ground and trying to avoid being spotted by the enemy. Is on the way to ambush the bandit mage or, failing that, the nearest bandit enemy.
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