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Somehow Sev managed to block a couple of the stone shards sent their way when Bardus attacked, more through luck than judgement based on how many hits he actually took. A particularly large chuck of rock struck him in the stomach causing him to stumble forward, likely out of the path of Bardus's follow up attack were it not for the timely intervention of Sahale.

"All have you know," Sev replied indignantly as he turned to look for Bardus, "I managed to sleep all night without being attacked."

Through squinted eyes Sev was clearly unable to follow the barrage of blows that followed, though he was clearly shocked by the sudden winds. It took him a long second to process the appearance of the wind spirit, but once he did he had to repress a feral smile. Steadying himself he once more took a combat stance with his spear pointed in the general direction of Bardus, mostly.

"I won't get far if I try to run," the warrior mage told Maeve, "not in this state. But I'm not one to give up so easily. Besides, I think I have this worked out now."

Taking a deep breath Sev began to chant a spell under his breath, with no ability to sense mana it was impossible to tell if he was accomplishing anything, but it was unlikely. That didn't stop him as he moved the tip of his spear in practiced motions.

"Sigsus fir pyras!" Sev shouted extending his forward hand towards Bardus, the line a common finishing line to fire magic practiced around the Scar. With his other hand he thrust his spear forward and, quite unexpectedly, there was a wild burst of fire that exploded outwards from the spear tip. The flames wouldn't have reached very far on their own, while the spell apparently worked, it didn't work properly. The winds racing out from the group caught the flames, the fire spell seeming to grow into a torrent of heat as they washed across the ground towards Bardus, and everything else in that general direction wherever the winds carried them.

"Of course," Sev said happily, apparently having seen his own spell, "you have to counter act the aetheric resonance in the local lay field which makes mana unusable. Not an easy task but possible!"

With a mad smile he once more took his stance with both hands on his spear.

"Wonder how long till I'm back at my full power."

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When he stumbled Sev palmed a small flask of alchemists fire from a pocket, he carries around a small selection of tricky items from bottled fire to smoke bombs for when he needs to confuse people. (granted he only has a couple of each, they're expensive and hard to steal- uh, borrow.)

At the end of the spell cast he tossed the vial forward and struck it with the blade of his spear, given that he's lying about being nearly blind it wasn't hard. The shattering of the vial was covered by the rushing of powerful winds and the dust kicked up by those same winds likely making the small vial impossible to see unless you were looking for it.

Of course thrown alchemists fire doesn't go far, but when picked up by the winds it atomized and took off, growing in size and speed.

Everything Sev said about 'aetheric resonance' was complete techno-magic-babble bull with no meaning to confuse Bardus.

In fact, almost everything Sev said this post was a lie.

He was woken from his slumber by the attack, he can run just fine, he can and will give up and run if he needs to and thinks he'll get away (without his magic he doesn't think he can outrun Bardus), and he has no idea how magic stopped working.

Sev is a good liar.
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