Aspel/Merri/Drake/Ari
The Elementals were gone now, but gunshots still echoed in his ears. Merri looked around wildly for where they might be coming from, jumping a little when he heard another one ring out, and he heard a cry of a woman's voice. It was not Ari nor was it Aspel. Then who?
When his eyes found Aspel again, he saw the source of the gunfire. His breath caught. On the one hand, he knew that he should not have expected any differently than a hume to be the one wielding the weapon, but on the other, he had fervently hoped that it would not be so. It looked as though she had already taken some damage, possibly from Aspel, who was as still as a statue just before her. Merri swallowed the lump in his throat, his hands shaking, unsure of what to do until the moment that the woman moved her aim at Aspel.
There was no more time to hesitate. Quickly, Merri cast a quick Stun spell at the woman and, without waiting to see if it caught her, prayed that the spell he cast upon Aspel was enough to lift the one that entrapped her. He tried it once, to no effect, and then again, and he nearly cried out for joy when he felt the familiar magick flow through his body and his arms for a successful attempt.
The woman was moving -- again, if his spell had indeed taken her, but it was difficult to be sure as Stun never held long anyway. Merri knew that she had to be the reason the Elementals showed up, the reason people fled the Tenements, and he knew that she had to answer for it. Oh, how he wished Peony were here; she was used to doing this kind of work, of bringing in bad people with the peacekeepers. He had no experience in this, no skill in it, so he did not know what he could do. To fight a hume, though... it was not something he ever imagined or hoped he would ever have to do outside of friendly bouts on the seventh and eighth floors in the tower. But neither could he just leave the others alone to this.
Maybe, just maybe, if he cast Sleep, she would fall to the ground, hurt no more than she already was, and there would be no more need for violence.
And so, though he felt his store of mana reaching near empty, he tried it, praying to Faram that it would be enough to end this battle.