[center][h2]Pagras[/h2][/center]

[center][@PaulHaynek][/center]

When the knight jumped over her earth-shaped conjured arms, Vanessa didn't so much as bat an eye. After all, she had half-expected him to do so. However, when the man performed a rolling self-catapultation right [i]through[/i] her second wave of ice-shaped arms, the dark mage was briefly stupified. She... Had not expected someone to use themselves as an impromptu battering ram. There was a first for everything.

However, more surprising was the man's sudden turn-about and foul-as-heck-ice-hockey-rules-violating hooking-stunt! The wretch dared attack a defenseless maiden with a pole-weapon!? What kind of [i]knight[/i] would do such a heinous thing! If she'd just been running normally, the dark mage would've surely face-planted onto the street below, with only her built-in airbags to soften the impact. Luckily, as she was under the effect of her own haste-spell, Vanessa had just barely enough cognition and reflexes to manage to drop her staff and catch herself by extending both arms. It still wasn't pleasant to fall straight down onto cold, hard, solid-ass stone, but it sure as heck was a lot better to be able to catch oneself than to give it a sudden, involuntairy smooch.

And then the [s]jerk[/s] man casually jogged off behind some buildings, as if he'd done nothing at all.

Thankfully, Iskah wasn't far behind and manged to catch up with the majin, who was now pushing herself back onto her feet. With a little help from her lizard-employer, the black-haired woman was soon enough back on her feet, brushing herself off and fixing the pelvic curtain of her [i]dress[/i] which, unfortunately, had become a bit tangled and displaced thanks to a certain someone's desire to have women [i]fall[/i] for him...

[color=lightblue]"Thanks, ow, I wasn't quite expecting him to do something like that."[/color] She thanked and commented, adjusting her hat. At Iskah's words though, the dark mage simply smiled a confident and unconcerned smug smile. [color=lightblue]"Lost? What're you talking about, little one? Don't you remember who I am? You think him running out of rang eof our physical eyeballs will keep him away and hidden from someone like me?"[/color] She almost laughed the words out.

Then, just as she had done when sending her little magic construct to find iskah and lead her to Aun, Vanessa conjured up a few more of her strange, bird-butterfly... Thingies. With a flick of her wrist, she sent out a veritable swarm of the little blighters, watching as they took the sky and soared up and above the buildings of the city.

Now granted, Aun had mentioned to the mage that he and his fellow knights had done things to try and hide, weaken, scramble and displace his incubus aura. And, for some monsters, that had actually worked. However, against a monster that specialized in magic manipulation, seeing magic weaves and with vast amounts of knowledge and experience when dealing with magic phenomenon, the man's 'smokescreen' was highly unlikely to pose any real issue. True, he may be able to lay low or hide for a while, but it would only be a matter of time before Vanessaa's hand-crafted familiars would be able to hone in on and locate his unique energy signature.

The fact that she'd been sitting right next to do the man and gotten a good feel mfor his aura wasn't exactly going to help him stay hidden for long either.

But back to the majin. She looked around for a bit, plucked her staff up off the ground and then turned to Iskah.

[color=lightblue]"So.... Did you lose our friend, the goober dum-yucky? You'd think someone like her would be a bit more cautious about leaving her precious trade goods in the hands of strangers."[/color] Vanessa chuckled. [color=lightblue]"But you just leave finding your hubbie to me, alright? Just like when I fetched you earlier, my little minions will come and let us know once they've found him again."[/color]