Right. A second ice trap is probably out then, at least as an entire solution. A more useful first move would be a distraction. Atronach. She prepares the spell, and glances at Ena to check her readiness.

Ena glances back and nods, shifting to the side so she'll stay hidden a few seconds longer.

She waits until the sphere is just at the farthest point she can reach with her conjuration, then calls forth the elemental in front of it.

The sphere unfolds and attacks the atronach. Ena releases her arrow then swiftly knocks and fires another one, managing to get two into delicate parts of the machinery, before the machine notices her and shifts so she isn't doing as much damage.

And since she's tried fire and frost, now is a good time to experiment with lightning, using the arrowheads as conductors to guide the shock into the construct.

That works just as well as the fire.

It kills the atronach with a few powerful blows and turns to charge Elana, but they're able to down it before it can reach her.

"There has to be a better way to deal with those."

"...They're rolling. They might have trouble moving if you ice the ground under them? Or at least between them and us."

"Mm. Possibly."

"There's also a chance we'd be able to put some of this rubble between us and them, but that'd be more difficult."

There's a clicking sound, only barely audible over the pipes. Might be the pipes themselves, actually.

If it is the pipes, there's not much they can do.

There's a tap, then a glint in the corner of her eye - 

And a metallic spider flying right at her, sharp limbs driving towards her chest and face.

She throws her arms up to fend it off.

It leaves gashes in her arms, then backs off for another attack.

Ena plants a dagger into one of its main joints, then backs off. The spider whirs, but the dagger's stronger than it, and its limb is noticeably affected as it presses its attack.

She pushes it back with the sheer weight of the spray of flame she directs its way.

It stumbles... And then lightning arcs Elana's way.

The machine will have to try harder than that to beat her with her own school of magic. She pulls the lightning aside and sends it back.

There's a metallic screech - heightened when Ena follows up with some quick arrows - and it finally collapses.

Elana examines her scratches. "Tch."

They don't seem poisoned or dirty, at least.

"Yeesh. We need to be more alert going forward. Especially since I suspect those eyeless creatures might be fond of ambushes, too."

"They'll be easier to see coming, assuming they're actually alive."

"Perhaps."

"Try to take the first one we meet alive."

"I'll certainly try. I think I have a mildly paralytic poison somewhere, too, I'll move that so it's more to hand."

Nod. Onwards, senses alert this time.