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Before Roan had the chance to fully regain his bearings - and if it took this long for him to realize he was still inside the execution room then it wasn’t looking good - the chaos surrounding them suddenly came to a standstill. He only noticed the oppressive crackling of electricity when it stopped, ears ringing in its absence, and it took him a moment to follow the gazes of all present to the source of the disruption: Inquisitor Hasgad had captured one of their number, and was holding him hostage in exchange for “Lyra.”

A quick glance around revealed that the only woman in the room was the girl who’d freed him from his shackles, and it took a brief moment for Roan to piece together that that was the “daughter” Hasgad was talking about. Wait, no, that couldn’t be right. Lilie-damn-Luscin, the leader of Dawn Rising itself, did [i]not[/i] send her only remaining child on a rescue mission for [i]him.[/i] That would be monumentally stupid. No, Hasgad had finally zapped his last brain cell, and he was mistaking the girl for someone else. 

It seemed this group was well-practiced, though, because they all played along seamlessly. One of the vampires derided the hostage, and the hostage himself offered a trade. Oh yes, clever! The gravity kid could pull the girl in, and then once she was close, she could reduce the crazy fucker to ash - or at the very least, distract him with some fire while the two vampires came in for the kill. It was a good plan, even more impressive to come up with on the fly, but it didn’t account for the reinforcements Roan could ([i]barely[/i]) hear tramping through the facility. 

Damn, what else, what else! Roan didn’t move a muscle for fear of triggering Hasgad and messing up the plan, but he looked around desperately, searching for any other opportunity to escape or fight back and coming up empty. Dammit, if only he had his magic! He was probably rusty after so long, but he could make some kind of noise or shockwave, maybe stun the Inquisitor long enough to escape - or, no, that would stun everyone else too, and even if he tried to make a concentrated origin point near Hasgad he’d end up catching the gravity kid in the blast. Well, maybe stunning everyone else would be fine since the vampires would recover the fastest, but-- [color=396BD4][i]Dumbass! You don’t have magic![/i][/color]

Wait! The girl used shields! That was protection magic, right? That could probably dispel his wards! He had no idea if that was true or if it would be possible in the time they had, but it was worth a try. While the Inquisitor was distracted with the posturing vampire and negotiating mage, Roan shot the girl a pleading look, flicking his eyes down and crossing his wrists in the hope that she would get the hint that despite her freeing him from his shackles, he was still bound.[right][sub][@Hero][/sub][/right]