"Yup. That's it. They're dead."
Aleena was quick to conclude to the rest of her sisters the moment Liaena and the other apprentices had left the cover behind the crates and walked straight up to the White Hand mercenaries.
"It might just be stupid enough to work, maybe?" Lithriell suggested, to which Aleena merely snickered under her breath in return.
"But even if they get through, what about us? No way we'd manage to disguise or lie our way past those mercs." Sounded the concerned voice of a third sentinel in the back.
Meanwhile, Rithrynn had been following the events taking place in the room down below closely. Liaena and the group seemed to have successfully walked all the way up to the White Hand mercenaries without getting killed. At worst, they now had a couple swords, muskets and spells pointed at them.
This, however, presented an opportunity...
"If their plan fails, it is us who will have to take care of plan B." Rithrynn finally commented as she turned to look back to her sisters behind the box.
"While Liaena and her friends draw their attention, I say we spread out and begin incapacitating their sentries. If a fight should break out, at least we'll have the advantage!"
Rithrynn explained to the rest of her sisters. A glint of enthusiasm flashed across the silvery eyes that currently gazed upon her, as the promise of action seemed to excite her sisters!
"Oh, and do try to keep the killing to a minimum. Or Liaena will not shut up about it - EVER!" Rithrynn instructed, while pointing up at her sisters as to warn them that terrible things would happen if anyone disobeyed her, possibly including shrinking and a free date with Naliyah! They all nodded, though whether that was due to fear of Rithrynn or simply impatience in getting to the action remained unknown.
And with that, six of the sentinels began to spread out into the storage area, leaving behind two of their wounded sisters to guard the still levitating body of Alissah.
Rithrynn walked silently in the shadows between the shelves. The lighting of the storage area was also rather poor, leaving it an excellent environment for stealth. As she slowly began to scale up the back of a large pile of crates, she noticed one of the storage workers below who had been looking at Liaena and the Captain suddenly get pulled back into a crevice between the crates as Aleena had snuck up behind him!
In the meantime, Rithrynn had scaled the crates in order to reach the wooden walkway above.
Sneaking up to the platform from its darkest corner, she crept up behind the nearby battlemage who currently was watching the conversation between the Captain and Liaena down below. Standing up behind him, Rithrynn would carefully move one hand over to the side of his head, and pulling his helmet off him. The battlemage immediately reacted, but just in time for Rithrynn to give him a hard smack to the side of the head; knocking him out cold on the spot. Reaching down to catch the battlemage so that he didn't crash into the ground and alert the others, Rithrynn carefully lowered his unconscious body to the platform without making a sound.
Across the other end of the storage, she could make out the faint, shadowy figure of Lithriell as the sentinel incapacitated the musket wielding chevalier on her side.
Smiling at her sister through the shadow while giving her a subtle nod with her hood, Rithrynn would then reach for her bow as she looked down towards the middle of the storage where Liaena was still confronting the Captain. She could not see her other four sisters, but could only assume that they were working their way through the White Hand's numbers beyond her sight. The fact that she neither saw or heard anything herself was a good sign.
There was still the problem of the heavy knights standing at the elevator doorway however. They were too exposed in the open whilst standing in the light to sneak up on.
"I guess we'll have to improvise."
