Jakk'ari and Zachary rejoin the wagons, puffing from their desperate dash to get there on time; the hunter sliding into cover in one of the wagons and scanning the treeline with his musket; the shaman keeping his feet on the sacred earth even as he begins incanting words in Kalimag that first stir and then wildly compel the air around the wagon defenses. A vortex of whipping winds spirals around the group, battering and pushing outward but keeping the central zone calm and clear for the defenders. The escort from Theramore are not at all used to having a shaman on their side - indeed, the element-speakers are seen as the traditional counterpoint to the Alliance's paladins, and therefore usually regarded with disdain. But as the sleek red reptiles emerge from the treeline all around the wagon charging forth only to stumble and stagger at the defensive winds, it's hard to fault the shaman's results.

Marion's fist unclenches as she sees a pack of three of the carnivores rushing towards her position. An almost imperceptible wink of red light flickers in her palm, and then is replicated far across the field in the midst of the raptors. Immediately, the grass around it blackens and dies, and begins to putrify; one of the raptors desiccates on the spot, collapsing with a whispered hiss as a bag of bones and skin, and putrefying meat. A second raptor from the trio perishes similarly, left mewling in craven confusion while its scales slough of its legs even as it carries itself out of the zone of the arcane decay. Only one of the three makes it out intact, hacking a reptile cough and powering forward through the winds.

Three other groups of raptors emerge from three other vectors, through two packs of three seem to be led by slightly larger and fiercer versions of the predators. Both these groups don't fail to notice that one of the prey has isolated itself - and they have no fear of Mor'Lag's size.

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Marion's turn. She can maintain the Death and Decay, but the surviving raptor has escaped its zone, and crossed half the distance between its starting point and the warlock.