at this serinae , keeping eye contact with tezrin , slowly lowered the hand that held the bard and suddenly with a sharp movement threw the little statue into the air , it seemed to take forever to fly up high above our heads tumbling over and over , then suddenly the beautiful little man exploded , shattering into a thousand pieces , i gasped and looking at serinae realised that she had retrieved her bow from where it lay at her feet and shot forth an arrow .