The adept’s heart felt lodged in her throat as she did her best to pretend to still be bound, flinching away with a whimper at the guard’s suggestion that clearly the reason she hadn’t been killed yet was that they hadn’t been starving the Monster enough. She kept her head lowered, letting her hair cover her face, and in general tried to appear as a terrified weakling.
Seemingly it worked, since the guard barely paid her any mind. It certainly made the skeleton’s distraction all the more significant, since the guard had fully turned his back to her to face the source of the strange noises.
Honestly it caught Alexandria a little off guard as well, the strange noises coming from the Monster startling her at first even though she’d been prepared for it. Still she forced herself to shake it off, grabbing the rawhide cord and wrapping the ends around both hands swiftly.
She wasn’t able to understand the call to action, of course, but perhaps some of the sentiment managed to cross the language divide, as she leaped into action. Quite literally, in fact, as she had to jump a little to manage to get the cord up and over the unsuspecting guard’s head. Of course, there was no disguising the rapid shuffling of her feet, nor the sight of the cord and her hands coming down in front of the guard’s face, but both her weight and gravity assisted in attempting to garrote the guard, choking off his air supply immediately.
She clung on to the cord desperately, ignoring the way it dug into her own skin on her palms as the guard tried to struggle, hanging on for dear life as her slighter frame was dragged around by the enemy’s frantic movements.
Once the mage jumped into action he did as well. First popping both hands free in quick succession. They floated to her aid, tugging on the cord as well.
Gaster stood up and made himself an obvious target in the hopes that he would still make a decent distraction. It worked to some extent, the guard aimed his punches forward instead of trying to grapple the mage off his back. Perhaps it was the confusion of it all that kept him from doing the rational thing and taking care of the immediate threat. Perhaps fear of monsters was really that high in the general population. Or maybe, just maybe he thought that human was still backed up against the wall in fear and this was all his doing. They could only be so lucky.
The guard got two swings in, the first Gaster was able to dodge just barely. The second caught him squarely on the shoulder and he stumbled backwards. But that was all the guard could muster before he started to lose consciousness. Gaster tugged as tightly as he could with what strength he had left as the guard went down. collapsing to the floor in a heap.
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