>Sever the tethers that are connecting the water sphere and the tendril to the woman.
>Rather, say, "I am sorry, but I am afraid that cannot allow that. I understand you don't wish to trust me, but please be assured that despite this, things will be fine for you and for him."
>The Buddha teaches that attachment to desires serve as a way to bind us to the cycle of rebirth and suffering, creating a sensation know as dukkha. While we may disagree that all desires are harmful, we certainly agree that attachment to things that cause dukkha must be removed to help a person awaken toward Nirvana. In this, we see that our current target has bound herself to Lily and to the waters. Let us try to use our talents to deftly server those bindings around Lily and free her from those effects, and perhaps try to leave the person whose things were suffered a moment of peace for losing this binding. This shall be called Moment's Respite from Dukkha.
>With the primary intent of rescuing your trapped friend, but also of disarming this crazed woman, as well as possibly resolving her less-than-rational mentality, if only for a moment, you point your scepter at the floating female. More specifically, at her ring, and the lines of energy connected to it. The woman raises her ring as a yellowish-gold light appears at the tip of your scepter, and you speak the spell,
>"Amber Lotus: Moment's Respite from Dukkha."
>A quintet of thin, tinged gold rays of light emerge from your scepter and fly, as a unit, towards the woman's ring. As they close on the target, however, they splinter off, one ray traveling down the aisle where the woman holds Lily, the other four evading the woman entirely and flying around behind her. Though these four fly out of your line of sight, in your mind's eye, you can see the fifth ray fly down the aisle and strike the large bubble holding Lily. The water bubbles again, before being suffused by the light of your attack. This light travels from the bubble back down the strand of energy coming from the woman's ring, and you can see similar lights traveling back up through the other four.
>The woman's face flashes between rage and surprise as she looks at her ring, towards the bubble, back at the other strands, at you, back at her ring, at you again, all the while her breath coming faster. "Whatareyou doing?" she blurts finally as your energy closes on her ring.
