The room was now a stinking mess of bodies strewn around the former living space. It was fortunate that it had taken this long for the alarm to be raised. It was equally fortunate that none of them had become seriously injured, given the number of close calls during that last fight. Runt's injuries gave Fendros pause, however. [i]The cut isn't closing up on its own. No wonder these hunters use silver,[/i] Fendros thought. Ahnasha thankfully wasn't struck by a silver fist, but it looked painful with the lines of blood streaking down her nose.

The scurry into the next chamber was certainly more disheartening. Fendros counted seven well prepared, well entrenched, and certainly well equipped hunters, in addition to an orc bristling with silver weaponry and lycan pelts. Their target. The first and only thing they could do was to duck behind whatever cave formations provided cover from the archers and the mage higher up. Fendros exposed himself for a moment and took a potshot at one of the archers, but he had aimed wide and had to immediately duck back behind his stalagmite to avoid the reciprocal attacks from them. A couple of wooden clacks against the walls behind where he was a second ago justified not sticking his head out for any longer. At least he caused the mage to hesitate with the arrow.

Janius was nearby, Fendros caught his eye with a expression of doubt. "They're in a blasted shieldwall, how to we deal with them?" Fendros hissed to Janius.

Without immediately responding, Janius peeked his head out to get a better look for but a second. "There's only four of them, we might be able to flank them, open them up."

"Don't be stupid, you'll be shot to pieces." Fendros reminded him.

Janius just grinned back at him, "Not if you and Ahnasha keep them pinned. Lorag, you wanna take the left?"

Sabine kept back near Janius, out of the firing arc of the archers, but she was getting restless. It was her that exposed herself first, virtually forcing Fendros to take another shot at the hunters on the raised platform. The shot was on target this time, but was slowed by the mage's ward before it could do any damage.