Burning humans directly was not quite the plan Tangle had had, but, well, they were improvising. And in terms of distracting obstacles, a burning, screaming, writhing mass of humanity, igniting carpets and wall hangings alike, was certainly not the worst one could do. Tangle's hand sketched through the air, lingering trails of light coming off the fingers to paint a complicated rune in front of her. Magic gathered in her hand, coiling and compressing a horrifying amount of power into a single ball of fire, illuminating her smile demonically for just an instant.
The moment the airborne fireball struck the ground in the midst of the mass of confused guards trying to pull themselves back up into some kind of order, it exploded outwards in a column of brilliantly green flame, a wave of heat washing over them a moment later, billowing her hair and cloak dramatically. "I never get to use that indoors," she noted, as the fire spread from the still-living bodies to the rest of the room with alarming rapidity. When it had been pure magic, there hadn't been any smoke. That was swiftly changing, although the purely-cosmetic green continued to make the rest of the fire match her eyes. "I always want to, though. We should be somewhere else, though." She said this last while already halfway out the door.
If they weren't 'distracted' by this, then they deserved to burn alive.
The moment the airborne fireball struck the ground in the midst of the mass of confused guards trying to pull themselves back up into some kind of order, it exploded outwards in a column of brilliantly green flame, a wave of heat washing over them a moment later, billowing her hair and cloak dramatically. "I never get to use that indoors," she noted, as the fire spread from the still-living bodies to the rest of the room with alarming rapidity. When it had been pure magic, there hadn't been any smoke. That was swiftly changing, although the purely-cosmetic green continued to make the rest of the fire match her eyes. "I always want to, though. We should be somewhere else, though." She said this last while already halfway out the door.
If they weren't 'distracted' by this, then they deserved to burn alive.