There's a startled yell from one of the mages, and it makes the mage with authority - Timmy, let's call him Timmy - startle before he's calling orders in Tevene to his fellow mages (Steve and Gus, for the sake of ease.)

The three of them draw together, and the slave warriors raise their shields to protect themselves from the meteors, although one is not quite quick enough, and staggers from his injuries, even as Steve and Gus cast barriers over their warriors.

Timmy, meanwhile, is displeased by this sudden turn of events; he casts despair, and follows with a vicious spray of ice attacks.