I pulled time to my magic point, and everyone moved very slowly. I lunged forward and took the center guardas sword from its scabbard, and with three swift motions, I killed the three guards. I left them standing there, dead but unaware of it, and I moved toward the archers. I redirected their aim and moved their fingers to loose the arrows. Time sighed back into right, and the events caught up: the three guards in the triangle dropped to the ground. One archer shot Kotyaer in the belly, pinning him to the tree behind him. The second archer shot the first. I stood nearby to cut down the second archer. Amrun looked around wildly, not believing his eyesa]