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Imalessa waited for what felt like an eternity - an entire three seconds - and listened. The trolls seemed to have been defeated, though after the struggle she wasn't entirely sure such a thing was possible. She looked to Nathaniel and scowled. How fortunate that he had arrived after the worst of it was over. Not that she'd been in the thick of it herself, what with her bow giving her the ability to stay much farther away, but at least she hadn't disappeared into thin air. She'd still done something. Her arrow had at least struck true.

Still, she placed the arrow back into the quiver. "Are they dead?" she asked him. Her voice quivered, and she wasn't sure if he could hear her over the rain and other sounds. "Truly, completely dead?" She half expected them to stir again. Even though one had exploded and the other had lost its head. It hadn't been so difficult to kill the animals that had been afflicted. She supposed they were much smaller and far less dangerous.