Re: [5:01pm]
Not a pathetic, weak-spined sheep, this one! Surprised, Alecto got her wand (and her shielding charm) up just in time. The barely-caught energy pushed her back, breath knocked out of her lungs and boots skidding until her heel dug in between cobblestones. Her laugh lacked a bit of force, aspirating hollowly behind her mask. So she didn't waste the breath she didn't have on shouting (Aurors - clearly what he was, here already? not bad - were rarely worth talking to in any case).
She fired her own Blasting Charm low, at his knees, and even as it left her wand, she was making a dash for the nearest building, eager to put what remained of a nice, solid wall between herself and tall-dark-and-belligerent here.