[center][h2][b][u]Alodia[/u][/b][/h2][/center] Admittedly, Alodia was a little slow to react to the ambush. Not merely because she was standing at the back, although that probably contributed a little. Really, she was just not used to the idea of someone "playing dead"; after all, doing such a thing in the forest would just lead to you getting snatched up and eaten whilst you waited for whoever you were trying to fool to pass by. Still, when the call to attack was issued she swiftly raised her demon skull-topped staff, and was about to begin an invocation to the fire spirit when the tiny, somewhat grouchy senior member of the knights requested that she [i]avoid[/i] fire spells. Really? She could totally control her magic enough to [i]not[/i] accidentally burn down the surrounding area, but if she insisted... "Hmph... Let's go with this instead then..." [i]"Lord of the Thunder, Father of Storms, bring forth thy power! [color=87CEFA][b]THUNDERSTRIKE![/b][/color]"[/i] As she yelled out her incantation, the sockets of the demon's skull began to glow blue, before suddenly discharging bolts of lightning at a group of unfortunate bandits; their twitching, smoking bodies lay helplessly as she rushed past them.