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Karma ducked someone as she went against the crowds of people fleeing from the attack that was happening.

"This is ridiculous," she said as a group of people pushed her back yet again. She moved through everyone over to a building and stepped into a doorway to avoid the groups. She wanted to get to a place where she could be useful but fighting a large group wasn't a good place for her. Anyone on her right could easily cut her down if they got on her blind side. Angling herself so she could see without turning her head halfway around like an owl, Karma saw an alley she could get down across the now thinning escaping civilians.

She darted across the street, roughly shoved by someone who she considered cowardly considering how strong he was, and slipped into the alley. It was one of those widing ones that went between multiple buildings and she ended up close to the plaza in the district where the Aldmeri were the soldiers had fallen back to.

She wasn't used to carrying a bow around. usually she went with her sword and a half a dozen throwing knives. She pulled the bow off of her shoulder and readied and arrow before ducking out of the alley into the street and around a building until she was nearer to the plaza and the advancing enemy.

To them, she probably didn't look like a threat. Standing at barely over five feet tall, she looked like a boy barely fifteen years old. She notched her arrow and took out one of the Aldmeri soldiers that bypassed her. She smiled behind the high collar of her jacket and drew another arrow letting it fly into the space in the armor at the waist. Karma drew another arrow but was starting to get arrogant and neglected to look around. She was being stupid - in a situation with multiple angles she could be hit from and failed to guard her right side. The thought dawned on her as she took an arrow in her right shoulder that dropped her to the ground.

Karma cursed, dropping her bow. She was good at compensating for her lack of sight in her right eye but always seemed to lack the restraint to stay out of these kinds of binds.

Being relatively ambidextrous, she pulled a knife out of her jacket in case anyone got close enough to try and finish her off. Course, being half slumped against a wall wasn't a particularly threatening stance. Then she saw they were retreating.

Karma tried to stand up only then noticing that there was more blood than she'd anticipated coming out of her shoulder. She cursed as she fell back against the wall with a wave of dizziness. "Arrow must have hit something more vital than I thought..." she muttered to herself. She was at least smart enough not to pull out the arrow. That would only make the bleeding worse.