The Amell Legacy: Transgressions

[Aveline Vallen]

Aveline's eyes widen, clearly not having expected that sort of thing from Carver. But she's far too seasoned and skilled not to react quickly. The first swipe of his claws skitters uselessly over her armour and she's got his wrists before he can do another. A quick twist of her waist, a leg slid behind his, and she's pinned him on the ground with her knee in the small of his back. "Lord zi'Amell!" she shouts. "Please stand down! I don't want to-"

[Bethany]

And then Hunter slams into her, nearly a hundred pounds of enraged canine desperate to protect his person. 

Beth has other priorities, rushing to knee by her brother and make sure he's okay. "Carver!"

[Carver Amell]

Carver struggles, clawing like a wildcat, desperate to get away, to fight.

[Aveline Vallen]

Aveline finally has to let go of Carver's right hand in order to keep Hunter's jaws from her throat. "Stand down or I will draw my blade," the paladin snarls. "Call of your mabari damnit!"

[Shisou]

Aveline shrugs off a spell; Shiori takes a step back immediately after casting, worried about retaliation.

[Bethany]

"Get off of my brother!" Beth screams back at her, trying to tug Carver out from under Aveline.

[Carver Amell]

"Draw, then!" he snarls. "I'll never go back!"

[NPCs]

And then the fight ends, because a tree root rips out of the ground and pins everyone to the ground, from Aveline to Hunter and even Carbonne.

"This is a sanctuary!" Dau thunders, for once not smaller than a gnome but instead taking the form of a twisted bramble and thorn shaped dragon the size of their rented cottage.

[Shisou]

"we'reverysorry," squeaks Shiori.

[Carver Amell]

"I'm not," mutters Carver.

[Aveline Vallen]

I was defending myself! But Aveline is smarter than to say that out loud. "My apologies, Wilding Dau, Eldest Daughter of the Oak. I did not mean to give offense nor cause harm to those in your care and under your protection."

[Bethany]

"Well you did," Beth snaps, craning her neck to try and see if Carver is okay. 

[Carver Amell]

Carver's wriggling is subsiding; Dau's not a threat, not to him, he knows that, even if the panicky terrified thing inside him doesn't remember that right now. 

[NPCs]

Dau stares at them all for a moment, then the root retracts just as rapidly as it came. He does, however, keep his massive thorn dragon body. "Bright's Aveline Vallen of Nyra, explain your purpose here,"  he rumbles.

[Aveline Vallen]

"Lady Leandra zi'Amell has passed, leaving her seat on the Guiding Lights vacant. As a Merchant Light, and her will stating her estate passes to-" Aveline hesitates, "to the eldest of the twins, that means that... Carver zi'Amell is now Lord Merchant. Underage, so he will be expected to appoint a regent of course. I was sent to escort him- and his sister- back to Nyra safely."