[Rosekitten]

He had grown silent. He couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong. Even with the mage spouting off insults left and right and trying to edge him on he couldn't shake that something was very wrong. Maybe because he wasn't just a city elf he could sense things like this. They never lead him stray before and he worried that they were right again. It wasn't like the wardens being able to feel the darkspawn. No this was more of just a bad feeling in general.

Still the mage went on and questioned him like she wanted him to snap at her. For someone who was being taken captive she certainly didn't shut up to try to make things easier on herself did she? Volke was too caught up in his thoughts though to care. Thoughts that soon became real as the attack came from no where on the group. Darkspawn against wardens, ok no huge deal. Against anyone else and if you got even a nick or cut you might as well consider yourself dead.

As each of the others fell one by one he heard the mage demand to be released before he got himself killed. Oh yeah that was a good idea, free the mage so he could get some fireball or ice blast to the back. Though it soon enough became apparent that he wasn't going to be able to take this many one. Sure they had fought darkspawn before. The things were everywhere, but this was a larger group compared to the others.

"Tsk.. damn it all.." He hissed before retreating enough to release the amge as she wanted. Hell he knew that death by darkspawn was one of the worse ways to go. The horror stories of it... could make anyone's skin crawl. The slow transformation and everything that went with it. The stories that surfaced in more recent times of what they used female captives for was worse. Broodmothers to spawn more of these fiends.

Right away the mage seemed to get to one of the fallen templars who was still breathing at the moment before taking the sword from his waist and ending his life before he became fully tainted and no longer considered human. Volke was a little taken back by this of course. To just stand there and watch someone end the lives of the ones still alive like that. Ones he had trained with or grew up around over the years. "You couldn't have waited for that?" He hissed at her before she made a valid point.

They were suffering he wasn't that blind. Still it wasn't a thought that settled well with him to say the least. Either way he had his own hide to take care of before he worried about the wounded or dead. Well all dead at this rate. He didn't even pay the mage any mind as he forced his blade through the next darkspawn that charged him. A lucky block with a wrist guard saved what should have been his own demise. Though the exhaled breath was short lived as a dragon seemed to come from no where behind him.

Backing up a bit he watched this display assuming that this should be the mage. You didn't see transformation spells too often they were difficult to master to say the least. The battle seemed to be over just as it had begun and after all the foes were taken care of the mage seemed to revert back to her normal form as she fell to the ground. Though that was not what he was watching. But he was looking at her but it was the fact that she had a tail. What the hell type of trick was this?

Panting a little to get his own breath back from the fight he almost was at a loss of what to do. The commander of this group was dead, he had freed a mage going against a number of rules he was suppose to be following. Let alone this mage he wasn't sure if she was even human or not, a tail or something abnormal normally meant void spawn or some deal with a demon. Let alone she was out cold and he couldn't even demand a answer from her.

Breathing out heavily he put the sword up after cleaning the blade off hastily. Right away binding the mage again just to be safe. Though if she was a void spawn these binds would only hold so long. With her taken care of he went about seeing if either of the others were even alive. Though the darkspawn were good at their work. Only the one she took care of had lived through the attack. They weren't too far from the caves and honestly the caves had not been used in some time.

Carrying the unconscious mage there he put her on a mat that was rolled out in one of the cells before locking it. Still having to take care of the bodies instead of just leaving them there. Though this was when he learned of more darkspawn in the area. With that he had to retreat back for now. The cave was well enough protected once inside and in the areas that had been fixed to be closed off. He needed to get back to town or a message back to the order. Easier said then done and he couldn't fight alone all the way back.

Plus he had to do something about this mage. Either way things were quiet now and moving he finally lowered the hood that he kept up all of this time. The poor lighting in here made it hard to see as it was. Though there were enough torches and candles to fix that and that was the first thing he moved to go take care of. If she was a demon the last thing he needed was to fight her in the dark.