Assuming everyone heads upstairs (or any upstairs people come down), Jennifer watches Jared like a hawk.
As Miyu walked in, she glanced to the side right in time to avoid the worst of the woman's effects... almost as if she'd known it was coming, and knew when to look away so as to avoid being affected. At the very least, she didn't seem terribly surprised by what she saw... but then, she was a pretty hard person to surprise in general. "I don't know what's going on here..." she admitted. "But I think you should stay put." She whipped a paper talisman out of her ofuda holder, and complex celestial script appeared on it as she chanted. "On irotahi chanoga jiba tai sowaka. You are not free to wander this world. Celestial Bindings!" As she hurled the paper, it split and multiplied into several dozen copies of itself that wrapped around the woman to pin her down, growing longer and thicker as they did so. At the very least, they'd probably help Aurora... especially because that looked like a good grapple, which'd make this woman all the more vulnerable. "...Anybody want to explain this to me?"
The girl's dance finishes with a sudden sharp movement, and she looks up to see you all...unaffected. Pouting in disappointment, she mutters, "This is why I like norms. They're so much easier to deal with." Scrunching up her hands, she mutters something and flicks her fingers at Miyu.
Miyu felt the blood in her veins literally begin to thicken and slow down.
Jared nodded. "Fine, if you all wanna see her so bad. Just...respect her privacy, OK? It's still my house. If she doesn't wanna talk then she can say so."
He grins as he walks past Jennifer, or at least makes an expression with his mouth that shows his teeth that might pass for a grin. Feel free to stare at my ass on the way up the stairs."
As he heads up the stairs, those that follow watch as he stops dead at the bottom of the stairs to the bottom of the third floor, looking up. "What the hell? What are you two doing here?" He stared at Solomon. "Who the **** are you? And why are you all harassing my guest?" His nostrils flared. "And why is she bleeding?"
"I'm a doctor, sir, and I believe this woman means to eat us." Solomon says plainly.
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He grins as he walks past Jennifer, or at least makes an expression with his mouth that shows his teeth that might pass for a grin. Feel free to stare at my ass on the way up the stairs."
"Killing a kid in a bathroom stall is a big turn-off, hot shot, and we haven't ruled that out, yet."
"Yeah, you break into someone's house and it's there fault when they get snacky on you. I'd probably wanna eat you too." Jared glared at Solomon and Jennifer. "Release my friend and get the hell out of my house."
The woman, trapped in the vines, smirked as she struggled to free herself. Giggling, she begins to mutter under her breath, the jerks against the vines taking on an oddly focused motion.
Jennifer balls her fists, takes a wide stance, and smiles at Jared. "Make her stop or this gets ugly!" She actually drools a little bit.
Her shadow went before her as Nurai followed Jared and Jennifer, glancing over to Tom to see what he was doing before she left the room. When the host stopped, she stopped where she was at the bottom of the stairs. Looking up the stairs in surprise at Doctor Solomon...and what he had said...and what else was being said... Nurai was conflicted. Jared had a point - anyone who came into her place uninvited would at least get a ringing headache for their trouble - but there was a difference in self defence or scaring people off and snacking...
"What is going on up there...including why you are up there, doctor, and why is Carm bleeding?" Nurai inquired with a tired sigh as she stepped to one side near the wall in case anyone wanted to go past her, resting one foot on the step in front of her. Nurai had not inherited the ability to catch scents that way, which she was thankful for, but she had seen her ана react to it a few times. They say scent triggers a lot of memories and raw emotions...and blood wasn't one to usually help with being cooperative or calm. Nurai could only guess that would be worse for someone like Jared, and struggled to think of words that might help.
The shadow waited on the steps in front of their summoner, becoming more ready to pounce as Nurai grew more on edge with the change in situation.
<blood battle death crime outrage I AM REGINLEIF I AM FREE>
Aurora's voice lowered an octave, coming out in a low growl. "Hold your insults, you Niflheim-bound abhorrent monster. You shall not slander me with accusations of breaking guesthood, not when she first attacked! And I will not stand for such aggression!"
Suddenly, she pulled a metal spear, shining gold and adamantine, out of thin air, heavily swinging the shaft towards the woman's head.
Miyu twisted away from the magical attack as it was sent her way, as if she'd been expecting that, too. "Enough of that." she said. Another ofuda flashed as she held it up, locking down dimensional travel and summoning within the area as Miyu focused on the talisman's power. This had turned very troublesome, very quickly... but she'd been struck at first, and perhaps just as importantly, she hadn't actually hurt anyone herself. Not yet, at least.
The woman's eyes glazed as the spear butt cracked her in the face, but spat the last words of her spell with a sneering smirk of a smile. The blood dripping from her hands shifted, moved and formed a circle next to her. Something began to bubble and boil within the circle itself.
Jared roared in outrage as Carm was struck. "You LIE your way into my house, INSULT me and ASSAULT my guest! Three times by your actions are you in violation of the ancient guests rights, and I shall take my vengeance in blood and pain before sending you simpering curs back to Simmons."
His eyes darkened, and his fingers and nails lengthened into claws. The creature flexed his fingers, baring teeth with noticeably long, sharpened incisors.
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Solomon places a hand on his temple and looks intensely at Jared, yet the slightest smile creeps up the corner of his mouth. "It's alright, Jared. Wait for me downstairs."
"Calling a demon with a blood sacrifice!?"
An otherwordly, disquieting laugh shook Aurora. "So be it! I did not break any covenant, but you doubting my word is insult enough! Your blasphemous imitation of life is a mockery against all I stand for, now fight and die with dignity, at the very least! Come, friends! We slay vampires!"
With her words, a wave of magic washed over all of her allies, calling back ancient memories of bloody fights.
Reversing her grip on her spear, this time she cruelly thrust the point deep toward the woman's abdomen, roaring in bloodlust.
This grapple may be broken when you lose control of the weapon used for the attack (such as by being disarmed), by either you or the impaled creature making a combat maneuver check with a DC equal to your CMD as a move action (you can reduce your CMD by an amount equal to your base attack bonus while ending the grapple in this fashion), or by the impaled creature succeeding at a combat maneuver check against your CMD as a standard action. When the grapple ends in this fashion, the impaled creature takes additional damage equal to the damage dice of the weapon used to make the original attack. You can choose to remove the impaled weapon as a swift action without dealing damage, although the impaled creature can make a combat maneuver check against your CMD to continue the grapple as a free action, retaining the impaled condition.
You and the impaled creature must make an opposed Strength check against one another to move while grappled in this fashion as a part of the move action (this Strength check is made by your mount if you are mounted), moving up to half of your base speed; the loser of this opposed check remains adjacent to the winner, being dragged along with them. If you are impaling two or more creatures, you must make an opposed Strength check against all impaled creature in order to move, and if you are subjected to forced movement, you must make an opposed Strength check against all impaled creature; failing this check against any impaled creature forces you to release any weapons you’re using to impale a creature (or to end impaling a creature with your unarmed strikes or natural attacks) immediately, while success drags any impaled creatures with you during this forced movement.
You can also choose to release the weapon as a free action without dealing damage (although you cannot release natural weapons). A creature may attempt a grapple check against an impaled creature to assume control of the weapon impaling that creature. If so, the creature making the attempt receives a +4 bonus on the grapple check. A creature can still pull the weapon out of themselves by making a Strength check against your CMD as a standard action, taking damage as previously listed. Talents with the (impale) tag can only be used against creatures who are grappled by this talent.
Nurai jumped back slightly, startled by the sudden escalation of rage, violence, so many mixing emotions. A mix of frustrated sigh and a growl escapes the Avatar as her smile dropped, mutters something about short tempers and wolf bloods, as she glanced down to the shadow. While Nurai stood, arms raised slightly defensively in surprise, the shadow remained on all fours ready to pounce.
Nurai stares at it for a moment, then nods, "тұруға және қорғауға" she comments, watching as the shadow went from the floor to standing, claws raised, between the shadow caller and the potential threats. Nurai looked around and listened for a few moments before speaking.
"I would still quite like an answer to my questions about what is going on up there. Since rights and covenants are being brought up, such things could determine certain actions. We, at least, do not 'slay' based solely on bloodlines..." Nurai says as she adjusts her sunglasses before clasping her hands behind her back. Neither her or her shadow made any movement toward anyone yet though Nurai was very tense.
As Jared raged, Miyu looked down the stairs, a distinctly displeased expression on her face. "I appreciate the laws of hospitality as much as anyone else, but your friend is the one who violated them and attacked your other guests." she noted, holding up her hand where blood was dripping down. "First mental magic, then actual harm. I don't take @#$% from people like her, and I've done no worse than hold her down. If you want to attack me regardless, know that I will be perfectly justified in defending myself."
Through what seems to be a considerable effort of will, Aurora speaks softer, in her voice. "She did some magic... some mind magic, I believe... then did something to Miyu. I... tried... to stop her without harming her. I did."
Animus at start of round: 5
Readied Maneuvers: 1Dust Catching Breeze 2Cursed Fate 3Elemental Strike 4Ghost Walk 5Fluctuation Movement 6Minute Hand
Granted Maneuvers: Ghost Walk, Dust Catching breeze, Fluctuation Movement
Thomas draws his weapon, a rather large high caliber pistol, leveling it at Jared with the cold blank face of someone whose shot more than a fair share of people backing away just far enough to give some distance.
"I'm here to find a murderer not play kids games."
The gun discharges, and the smell of ozone fills the air as lightning crackles from Thomas's arm, into the gun and through Jared before he has an instant to react.
Activate Animus Charged Bullets(1 animus add Wis to damage), Increase Potency(1 animus ignore 10 points of electricity resistance)
Standard Dustcatching Breeze
Touch Attack vs. Flatfooted.
Damage
Electricity Damage
Free Dirty Trick maneuver to Blind vs flat footed CMD.
At end of round: Gain 2 Animus.
By the time Jared gains his senses Thomas's voice is a clear command. "The nixie b*!~* set you up. Now sit down or I put you down.
His eyes darkened, and his fingers and nails lengthened into claws. The creature flexed his fingers, baring teeth with noticeably long, sharpened incisors.
As soon as Jared's transformation begins, so does Jennifer's. Her fists open to allow for her own sharp claws to extend from her fingertips. Her eyes also turn black, and when she bares her own teeth, they've all turned needle-like and part to make room for an elongated tongue. Her ears also grow to long points, and two short, curved horns sprout from her forehead. And during the split second it takes for these changes to occur, Jennifer has doubled in size.
She laughs throatily at Jared as she throws an underhanded slash aimed at his stomach, followed by a sideways slash from her other claw.
"DO YOU LIKE TO FEED FROM PRETTY THINGS, JARED? AREN'T I PRETTY? COME, PARTY BOY. SEE HOW I TASTE."
Solomon tilts his head drastically to one side as his calculating mind struggles to grapple with the explosion of supernatural happening around him.
Jared turned his eyes on Solomon. "Doctor, doctor, dear doctor. Come to make a house call, Doctor? Tricks like that won't work on me.
Want me to show you what will work on you?"
The bullet Thomas fired exploded against his chest, although it lacked the spectacular red spray one would suspect. Electricity crackled across the creature's torso from the shot, singing his clothes but otherwise not apparently affecting him, and the blood that flowed was black and cold. Jessica's attacks hit home a second later, ripping into the creature with a terrifying ferocity. Taking a smart step back, he looked down and sighed.
"That was a new shirt, you know. I guess the doctor can wait."
Turning to face you all, the creature tilted his head to one side, incisors flashing as he smiled. "Did you sip that drink you made, barkeep? Ever wonder what a vampire likes to keep in stock? I wonder what those wonderful beverages can hide, taste wise. You can stand down." Looking around, he bellowed, "You can all stand down. This is my home, and you will respect that, or I will make you." Nodding to Nurai, he continued, "By my right as the owner of this home, one who has offered you guest right, inflicted no harm on you or yours - even if I touched that boy, which I didn't, you've all admitted he was nothing to you - and by your attack on my guest without my blessing, whether she attacked you or not while you were trespassing through my house, I am well within all rights by our rules and the mundies to tell you to get the hell out. And no tasty pretty girls," he grinned at Jennifer,"Will change my mind. Last. Chance."
His simple words carried a chilling certainty to them. He stood taller, more commanding, all trace of the party boy long gone and instead a creature that had seen more nights than you all remained in his place.
...or something that could fake being one, of course.
Unfortunately, if the words were able to even reach Carm, they didn't seem to have an effect. Instead she giggled as he blood - bright, jewel red - continued to drip down from her hands and along the shaft of the spear. "Pretty girl, with pretty blonde hair. Och, I always preferred a redhead, but a blonde makes a delicious change..." Her eyes sparkled in delight as an odd brogue filtered into her speech.
Grasping the spear in both hands, she pulled towards Aurora, gasping in what was hopefully pain as she did. Sliding along the sharft of the spear, she lunged, grabbing Aurora as she did. Her teeth snapped shut near the Valkyrie's neck, attempting to bite down, but she wasn't pinned yet, and could move to escape.
Something....bulged, against the circle of blood, pushing at the edge of reality from somewhere very far away that was currently far too close for comfort. The barrier that Miyu had erected held, one of the runes along its edge erupting in scarlet and gold fire with a smell of burning iron, and the circle settled...for now.
Nurai nodded to Miyu and Aurora at their explanations. Behind her sunglasses, her eyes kept glancing around. She winced slightly at she watched Jennifer grow and slash at the host.
Nurai nodded back to Jared, the summoner swallowed thickly at his determined words. If she were not already inches from the wall, she would have shifted further back. Her shadow remained as they were, claws out, while Nurai and her short shimmery painted nails went from rigidly tense to slumped shoulders and anxious, her teeth still gritted together in frustration.
"I don't think anyone is playing kid games, Tom, but it feels like everyone is working to different rules. Көлеңкелер, I wish I had my Mother Sezim's truth-telling spell right now. Annoying as it is, being able to just ask what they know about the murder for Valda and having it magically verified so we could just move on without all this crap would be handy right now. Jared...has a point. No matter our intentions or who sent us, we entered under false pretences and he has not harmed us yet. I cannot say the same about Carm, there is evidence of harm but I wasn't there and I've very little idea of what's going on up there - I've no clue what the smell of...metal burning means - but other than defending from attack or answering an attack on one we're bound to... I don't want to let Valda down, we've been friends for years, but... what other options are there? He's still a fully feeling being... and even if we chose and managed to beat either of them up, that doesn't mean we'll get the answers we were sent to get... " Nurai rambled, looking from Tom to the others, trying to calm her shaking nerves, her mind racing. She wasn't her mothers or uncles or aunts...she wasn't a person with a history of adventures and stories and...,she saw herself just a kayal woman with an infused shadow who had a knack for being in a good place to help from time to time.
As Nurai spoke, she shifted where she stood...and one of the hands behind her back moved slightly under her leather biker jacket to grab the butterfly knife hidden there.
Snarling at the hideous creature, Aurora shifted her grip, pivoting the spear against her shoulder to throw her down the stairs. "Your next meal shall be in the Niflhel, monster. Have a decent death, at the very least."
Space continued to hold stable as Miyu maintained her barrier against otherworldly creatures, and she was a bit Shaken at the moment. "If you could stop the summoning that the Baobhan Sith, is doing, I'd appreciate it." she managed to get out. If the monster managed to overcome her ward, she'd probably have to focus on something a little more punishing - but for now, she was simply trying to go with the idea that the easiest fight was one that didn't happen at all.
Unable to leash her demon so easily, Jennifer doesn't heed anyone's words. She lashes out at Jared again.
Solomon is conflicted as he is unused to such bizarre circumstances. The thought of burning the entire place down with everyone inside flashed across his mind before he brought his focus back to the task at hand: the summoning circle.
Solomon stepped towards it and away from the creature as he popped the latch on his case and four wooden stakes clattered to the ground. He knelt to the ground and used one to break the skin of his left arm and edit the runes in the circle. "Miyu, let it through." He said with confidence and authority.
Animus at Start of Round: 5
+4 Initiative and Dodge to AC.
Animus at start of round: 5
Readied Maneuvers: Dust Catching Breeze Cursed Fate Elemental Strike Ghost Walk Fluctuation Movement Minute Hand
Granted Maneuvers: Ghost Walk, Dust Catching breeze, Fluctuation Movement, the rest.
Thomas's gun shakes slightly as ultimatums are made and people talk way too much but otherwise his expression doesn't change. "Jen, try not to kill the bastard again. I'm going to make sure we're not visiting someone's mother with bad news tonight."
Nimbly bouncing past the brawl into the hall beyond. Not seeing a clear shot ahead. he decides that it might be easier to subdue Jared if he's on the floor. "I'll beg your forgiveness later if I'm inclined.
Barely turning back to Jared he puts a very large bullet into the vampire's kneecap fairly confident in the fact that a very large hole there would be inconvenient.
Activate Animus Charged Bullets(1 animus add Wis to damage), Spend 2 Animus to augment strike +2d6 electricity damage and +2 to DC.
Standard Elemental StrikeIf this attack hits Jared must make a DC18 Reflex save or fall prone
Touch Attack(shaken, pointblank shot)
Damage
Electricity Damage
At end of round: Gain 2 Animus.
Moving with shocking speed and grace, Jared dodged the shot from Thomas' gun. He shot the Barman's an impressed glance as it exploded against the far wall, punching a whole into the night beyond.
Jennifer's first swing of her claws was somewhat more accurate.
Snarling in anger, Jared replied in kind to Jennifer's claws. Although smaller by far, his strength was that of the undead, and the chill of the grave touched his attacks as he swung in reply.
The Boabhan Sith grunted as she was flung down the stairs, breaking her grapple. "So you've heard of my kind," she said, grinning at Miyu. "Do you know the cost of killing one of us?"
Seeing what Solomon was doing, she roared, "NO! Don't you touch that! It's MINE!"
Plant life erupted from the wood with a screech of splinters beneath Auora and Solomon. The plants were...odd. Blackened, dying, but pulsing with bright red veins.
With moments they started to wrap themselves around the pair, winding and binding in a bid to stop them.
The barrier covering the circle stretched...stretched...and broke. An arm the colour of clotting blood rose through the portal, then a second, as something pulled itself through. Looming over Solomon, it looked down at the cast with eyes the colour of tarnished garnets, and...awaited his order.
Jared's jaw dropped as the creature appeared. "What the **** is that?"
"Do you know the cost of thinking you can just do whatever you want to mortals?" Miyu countered, stepping out of the Baobhan Sith's immediate grasp. She drew out another ofuda talisman, and it erupted into emerald green flames. "Besides, you're the one who first tried mind magic on me, and then you caused physical harm even when I'd merely restrained you. You're in a mortal nation, ruled by mortal laws, so kindly go **** yourself. You started it, so you don't get to complain. Now... On aganaya in maya sowaka! Let the flames of life burn away the impure!" As she shouted and flung out her hand, her talisman shot at the evil fey and burst over her with the power that infused all of Miyu's techniques.
Jennifer is not as hurt as she could be from Jared's claws.
Jared's jaw dropped as the creature appeared. "What the **** is that?"
"IT'S A DISTRACTION, PARTY BOY."
Jennifer launches herself at Jared again.
Nurai looked up the stairs curiously, trying to ignore the gore from the fight in front of her. "It's the summoned being Miyu said Carm was bringing in... " Nurai replied to Jared's question though sounded more like she was talking to herself as she glanced to her shadow and then back up at the stairs.
"I know they say 'it's not the size of the summoning, it's what a summoner can do with them.' - for several reasons - but that still feels a bit ridiculous to me... since she doesn't seem to think we're a threat, either she's showing off - or wants to obliterate everything." the summoner considered aloud, not taking her gaze from the creature as she opened her butterfly knife and held it tightly in her left hand.
Solomon is quickly bound by the grasping plants. He looks to the wooden stakes on the floor and then to the blood golem, his mind racing for options.
Solomon commands the blood golem authoritatively, "Free me!"
He then begins to study the Baobhan Sith, looking for weaknesses. Even as he does so, he reaches out his hand and a wooden stake leaves the ground and drifts mysteriously into the air.
Holy mother of marshmallow, what is happening here? Stop! Stop, Reginleif! Hear me, I am you!
Moving slowly despite the vines, Aurora twirled the spear, pointing it at the horrid fey. The weapon glowed faintly of dark blue light, which danced along the gold carvings on the adamantine, writing evershifting runes on the shaft.
"You think you can escape from Death? I was born to show you otherwise. I judge you unworthy, monster, whichever the cost"
Aiming the spear at the monster's abdomen, she thrust again, viciously.
The creature reaches out, grabbing the vines in gruesome hands and pulls. They explode as the creature contemptuously rips them asunder, leaving Thomas free to attack.
The attacks piling onto Charm made the creature scream, but it's Fey abilities meant the damage wasn't as severe as it should be. "Leave me alone," she cried out, arm outstretched towards the Golem. "You took it away from me...just leave me alone..."
"Will you stop, you mad woman? Can't you see the damned demon?" Jared lashed out with one foot, trying to hook the calf of Jennifer and send the giant woman crashing to the ground.
The move failed, however, due to her huge size and form.
Solomon dusts off the plant residue from his coat as he casually flicks his other wrist to send the stake stabbing at the creature. He then extends his hand towards another stake and sends it towards his opponent with similar effort. Even as he does so, his voice enters Thing-That-Ate-Jennifer's mind.
"Turn your wrath to this monster!"
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At Solomon's words, Jennifer glances up the stairs and then whips her head back around to Jared. She hooks her own leg behind his and shoves him.
Whether he falls or just stumbles, she half smirks, half snarls and then turns to sprint up the stairs.
"Which monster, doctor?" Jennifer's voice is calm and collected in Solomon's head.
"Interesting..." Nurai commented as she watched the creature responding to Doctor Solomon's command. She considered events, ignoring much else until Jennifer went charging up the stairs. Glancing to Tom and Jared, the shadow caller raised her voice as she started walking towards the stairs, knife in one hand and shadow eidolon walking beside her until they both stopped in unison near the bottom step.
"I avoid summoning circles - if one can't bring a being through oneself, probably shouldn't do it, even with party tricks. If you have the being's ear, Doctor, can you send them back? Before circumstances change? Or do you need a hand with that?" Nurai said matter-of-factly without moving further. While Carm sounded like she was upset at not being able to have the creature, Nurai couldn't shake the idea at a being once moved could be moved again - and if Carm needed a fancy circle to get them here, it was likely not easy for her to bring them through again.
Thomas pauses briefly glancing up the stairs as a number of science fiction b movies play themselves out upstairs. "Well...shit." Half heartedly he points his gun back at Jared. "Just chill out there a minute and let this play out okay?"
"I'm getting real sick of that." Miyu growled as the fey tried to hit her with some more mind-control magic. She tended to take personal offense to that sort of thing, especially given all the abuses that fey were prone to. Pulling out another talisman, she focused for just a moment. "On ishanaya intaraya sowaka. Strike down the wicked! Celestial Blades!" As the talisman left her hands, it multiplied into dozens of copies of itself. Unlike before, however, they didn't simply aim to wrap around the woman... instead, they straightened out like blades as they fanned out over the short distance.
Aurora reached out, trying to grasp the obnoxious vines clinging to her, but she couldn't get a good grasp, and the blighted vegetables still enveloped her legs. Taking advantage of the frustration, her less bloodthirsty part somehow regained a degree of control over her actions.
"Jedi mind tricks will not help you here, not against me. Surrender and you won't die now."
Charm managed to roll out of the way of at least some of Miyu's attack, but between it and the daggers, the woman slumps to the stairs, wheezing, clearly dying.
Blood starts to pool beneath her.
Jared lightly moves out of the way of Jennifer's attack and heads towards the wounded woman, making sure not to allow Jennifer a chance to attack , but pauses, clearly hesitant to move in and help given the circumstances. He looks around, warily, at you six and the creature.
The crust of blood ripples across the creatures surface.
In theory, so long as it's bound, it will be forced to return to where it came at a simple command. The reality, however, will pit it's will against the person trying to send it back.
Solomon sees the monster defeated and turns his attention to the rest of his surroundings.
"Someone please explain the situation to Jared. I'm assuming he didn't realize he was keeping company with such a creature."
He then turns to the blood golem and focuses keenly on his command as he states sternly, "Go back to where you came from."
Nurai looked sympathetically at Jared, and nods him forward, "You can go to her if you want. Her lying about being a water fey does not mean everything she said was a lie...though it does look pretty likely that she was involved with the murder."
Nurai sighed, glancing to her shadow and then around to the others. "I'm not sure what type of evidence that big Fey of the Wild Hunt will require, they'll want her, almost certainly... but in what condition and whether they need her able to give a confession..." Nurai shrugged as her sentence trailed off. She didn't really keep up with the nuances of fey desires and unsure if she could even if she wanted to. Some only cared as long as someone paid, others want the words and blood for themselves...
Shifting back to ensure people could pass easily, knife still in one hand, Nurai pulled out her phone from her jacket pocket with the other. With a nod to her shadow, she leaned against the wall and began tapping out a message. The shadow shifted slightly closer to their summoner but remained obviously on guard.
Aurora rested the tip of her spear on the woman's throat, breathing heavily and licking her lips. For a handful of seconds she stood there, fighting a battle of wills against her impulses. Then, apparently, cold logic prevailed, and she threw down her weapon, looking nauseated.
"I don't think that the Fey can outright lie, but they can twist words. And we do need her alive. We have no proof beside circumstantial evidence that she was involved in the murder."
She then looked in front of her, apparently only now taking in the sight of Jennifer and Jared. Holy mother of marshmallows, what is she? She looks like she came straight out of Supernatural.
"Jared, I swear on my honour as a Chooser of the Slain, I spoke no lies. Our business was with the murderer who attacked the Fey in the club, which I believe to be this woman. And she did attack us first. If you truly have not raised your hand against anyone, then" no matter how much your existence might nauseate me "I think we have no quarrel with you. Can we negotiate at least a truce?"
"Doc, will healing hurt her? I'd rather stop the bleeding, but I know the undead react to magic differently from us."