And it would be sometime before anything would stir. And to the one moving in the shadows, it appeared the two before them was none the wiser. So quickly they moved forward, silent as the dead, but one wrong step had a floor board creaking, and when Killian's eyes fluttered open, it took him a second in his groggy state, to realize just what was going on.
And it was an instinct how he reacted, jerking up suddenly when the glint of a blade came their way. And a crazed woman looked at the pair, having to be in her late forties or fifties, with ragged hair and clothes, and was dirty from head to toe. And though she held a knife, she did not strike them but held it in their direction with a growl.
Killian was now fully erect, placing his seated form between this strange woman and Silmeria.
"Soldier.."s he hissed, unable to take her crazed, feral look off of Killian. "Soldier of hell you are! How dare you come to my place of sanctuary." And before Killian knew what was going on, the woman came at them-a nd Killian did hte only thing he could- and threw out his only remaining limb towards the strike to take the brunt of it while protecting Silmeria from any harm. And the knife first clinked after his armored shoulder, making the woman hiss before she was after them again, and this time her knife cut deeply into his cheek.