Smith's expression at that moment would have curdled the blood of a monster. He wasn't used to that sort of pain, so he was stopped dead in his tracks.

He spent a few moments on the floor, and managed to roll over to avoid a lot more pain in his leg. There was quite a bit of growling and swearing in there, and he looked at Aevalaine when his pain had finally began to die down a few minutes later.

"I put that girl to bed myself. If I were awake when it happened, I would have fought back at the intruder, but apparently they didn't even bust down my locked door. When I woke p, the door was open and the girl was gone.

"I assumed right away that she had gone to my forge, and was waiting for me somewhere near there. I was about head back down there when this...stuff happened." He nearly swore again, when the pain in his leg spiked again when he accidentally moved it in mid-sentence.