[Jitter bug]

By the time Ricky woke, Thalea was close enough she practically heard him wake, the change of breathing was truly the only sign. She didn't want him to jump to conclusions and strike out if he saw her shadow so close so as a precautionary action she nudged his foot with the toe of her own. She didn't know what to do, only how to run in situations like this so acting by instinct she took a pebble, one just big enough to disturb the somewhat loose rock at the foot of the entrance, and threw it towards the entrance. She wasn't trying for a distraction, she was trying to get one of the men to go towards the dim light leaking into the hole. It would give her enough of a silhouette to get a clear target with a knife or her bow.

It was simply too dark inside for any other kind of fighting, they needed light, she needed light at least, she needed to see whoever was in her cave of a shelter, how big they were and what they had on them. She wasn't one to waste an opening so slipped away the bigger of her blades for a single throwing blade, throwing it when the small slide of rocks drew a rather unlucky, or stupid, man's attention. Her cheeks flushed in frustration when the knife hit high on his body, only hindering him but not disabling him completely.