This hurts very badly and does not knock him down and he is going to attempt to kill her with his fists if there's nothing else obvious to grab here  - oh wait there is the spell Savage Maw that grants him a bite attack okay he will try to kill her with his fists and with that.

She screams and falls down, bleeding out.

Two more mages enter through a different door. These two are pretty far out of range of his fists and his bite attack. One of them casts something that makes him feel weak and exhausted. The other fires off a blast of magical energy and then creates another paralysis glyph below him.

They're probably not out of range for the spell Iron Stake but that's all he's got, he's not actually a caster - 

He stops moving.

She makes a hand motion - it doesn't look quite like it can be a spell, but it's something - and the glyph and the exhaustion melt away. She's already rocketing across the room by the time she finishes, and the mages barely have time to react to the nullification before she punches one of them in the face. She can't hit both of them at once, though, and the other one hits her with lightning. A lot of lightning. 

He can punch that one in the face!

Unfortunately, even if you are really, really good at punching things, it is kind of hard to win against lots and lots of lightning magic with your fists. And the mages can heal each other between attacks.

There's a lot of lightning, and then another casting of weakness, and then more lightning, and then both of them are going to be on the ground in very poor shape.

"My family will trap your soul in a rock and drop it to the bottom of the ocean if you're somehow not evil," he snarls at them, which will achieve nothing as he doesn't speak their language.

Under different circumstances she could translate but at the moment she is having a very hard time staying conscious at all. One of the mages kicks her in the face, hard. She can taste blood. She can hear North whimpering across the room from her, but can't see what's happened to him. She doesn't know what's happened to Mahdi's bird at all.

Should have teleported as soon as they arrived here.

One of the mages casts another spell, and both of them black out.

She wakes up bound and gagged in - a covered cart, of some kind, she guesses, from the sensation of motion and the sounds. It's mostly but not completely dark; there's a very small window near the top of the box they're in, and from the light level she expects that it's almost dusk. She can see the other four members of her party here, also bound and gagged, each of them in a sort of mini-enclosure separated from the others by bars. 

None of the animals are visible.

Well. 

They have been in worse scrapes but only the once. 

She hates everything. 

She tests the strength of the bars and the walls, not actually hoping it'll do anything. It doesn't. 

Well. Whoever is causing them so much trouble obviously doesn't want them dead. That's... something, maybe? 

Twice a day someone casts a paralysis spell on them and then soaks the gags with water. They are not given food.

On the morning of the third day, the cart stops.

Where?

Another manor house, looks like, in the few seconds they can see through the open door. There's a city in the distance, much larger than the one they came from, maybe as large as Sothis. It's all black and red four-story buildings, looks like, some of them fancier-looking than others.

And then someone casts paralysis, weakness, weakness, sleep.

She wakes up in a much larger but equally bare room, with a single high-up, very heavily grated window. It's day. Hagan and North and Fy are all there, unbound but not uninjured. Everyone else is missing. There's a single plate of food in one corner, near the door. She doesn't touch it.

"You awake?"

He is awake. They do not have a language in common. 

He sits there meditating.

Right, languages.

She flops. Pets her dog. Pushes the plate of food towards him. Prays.

He eats the food. Takes the plate. Concentrates and - turns it into a bladed throwing star. It still looks the same but it should do damage as one now.

To demonstrate this he cuts his arm.

She blinks at him and looks moderately concerned, and then - nod.

He can also do resistance against electricity for one of them but that one won't last all day so he'll wait.

He holds Fy and stares at the wall.

...she's honestly sort of regretting having given him all of the food; it seemed like the right thing to do at the time but she's really incredibly hungry now, actually.

An hour later someone slips two more plates of food through some kind of grating mechanism in the door that never actually gives the prisoners a view to the outside. She pushes one towards Hagan and Fy and keeps the other to be distributed between herself and North.

Well, okay.

He's eating the food because it's not like they can't kill them if they want to, now.

And if they don't eat they definitely will die, and will also be in a much worse position to do anything if their captors make a mistake, so.

Three hours later (or two, or five, she can't keep time like this), there are two more plates of food.

Weird? Well it'll be more weapons, eventually.

And a few hours later there are two more plates, and a few hours after that someone comes by again.

"Those ones have already had three today," says someone outside.

Aria tilts her head just so, towards the wall with the door in it, and sits very, very still.

     "Magister's orders," says someone else, quietly. "They haven't eaten since they were captured in Vyrantium."

"What does he care about that?"

     "Something about not being able to send them into the fade on an empty stomach. Once they're in he might want them under for days for observation. Have to pull them out early if they're starving, if he doesn't want to lose his investment."

"Huh."

     "I'm really just doing what I'm told."

"Send them in, then, I guess."

Two more plates appear.

Well he's not really hungry right now but maybe it'll keep.

They're gonna be deliberately trapped in the Fade to be spied on. She's not sure if there's a way to do that with normal magic, but the last time she was trapped in the Fade it was courtesy of a demon, and technically she did defeat the demon but it was not easy, and also there were not other people around causing problems after that, and also she was not trying to keep a bunch of Tevinter mages from - fuck, if anyone would repay kindness in stopping the Blight by going to someone's home realm and trying to conquer it or bleed it for more power and resources, it would be the people who invaded the golden city and created the darkspawn -

She does not know how to communicate 'we are going to be trapped in the Fade for several days and then spied on by demons' without a common language to someone who might not actually have all of those concepts, and she's not even sure it'll actually do any good, but it feels like an error not to try. How do you -

She makes a noise to get his attention. Points to him and to her, pantomimes sleeping, points out the door, points to her eyes and then away from them, like she's watching something, and points to her head. She... doesn't know how to ask if that made sense to him.

Well he looks super confused.