Lorenzo sidestepped as the little blobs fell from the sewer ceiling.
Noticing the splashy sounds and their legs, he tried to warn the others, "This is more than just gunk. Careful."
He then attacked the little insect/blob with his sword and shield.
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Aided by her devil-assisted vision, Catina spots a small chest hidden under some rubble against a wall. She hesitates for a moment, then calls for her companions to halt in a very thin voice. "Lorenzo, here. Hold on..." She clear some of the rubble from the chest, and finds within some gold pieces and jewelry. "Jewels!" she exclaims, trying to keep her voice to a whisper. "They're quite pretty, aren't they..." Knowing that they should keep moving, Catina quickly pockets the contents of the chest, and is ready to resume walking.
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Catina is more intent on looking behind her, than looking above. That, and her hood might have impaired her hearing. Feeling the oozes drop on her is a complete surprise. She utters a shrill yelp, cut off abruptly as she clasps a hand in front of her mouth.
She shakes to get the ooze creatures off of her shoulders and on to the ground. "Ooze bugs," she whispers to the others when she's recovered from the initial shock. Then, more to herself: "Aren't they marvelous...?" Feeling the sting from their acid on her shoulders, burning through the cloak, she realizes that the torbles are not just pretty and fascinating, but also dangerous. She draws the dagger from her belt and crouches low, to stab at one of them.
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"Good eye, Catina," Faustinia comments as the girl rifles through the small chest. She catches sight of the jewelry--small, paltry things, mostly. But then, even small jewels would be welcome to the Xerysis name these days. She sighs quietly, putting her pining away for later.
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"Eugh!" Faustinia puts a hand up to her head, rubbing the forming bump where one of the slimy creatures fell on her. "Ow!" she kicks away one of the creatures, wincing at the painful acidic bite on her foot. "Disgusting torbles!" She drops her staff, letting it clatter against the ground and removes the small crossbow from her back. Taking aim, she shoots a bolt at the one that bit her.
Sev raises an eyebrow when Catina mentions the jewels. We should keep running! He thinks but he's been trained to well to speak out against his betters.
Unfortunately he's too nervous about having stopped to notice the bugs as they drop on to him and attempt to take a bite of him. Thankfully he's quick and he manages to step out of the way as the *plop* to the sewer floor. Too close for a ranged attack, the halfling draws his morningstar and stabs at one of his foes, hoping to drive the bugs away.
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Only Sev manages to mash up one of the two torbles occupying his space, while the others experience some difficulties in hitting the diminutive and elusive creatures.
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Lorenzo winces as the older lady gets bitten again by the disgusting insects. "Lady Faustina, please get behind me. These things will have a harder time getting through my armor."
He then pressed his attack with both sword and shield.
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Catina hops from one foot to the other in an attempt to avoid the torbles. "Oh, silly creatures," she chides them. "We don't want to hurt you. Just go away. Shoo!" She pokes at one of them with her dagger, hoping to drive it off.
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Sev, inspired by the accuracy of his previous blow, turns on the second creature trying to bite into him. He swings his morningstar again but this attack is not nearly as accurate.
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Catina looks disconcerted at the torble, killed by the point of her dagger when she tries to remove it. "Oh..." is all she can manage. Staring at the offending dagger, she tries a different approach. Admonishing the ooze bugs again, she plant her foot close to one, and tries to shove it away, down the tunnel. "Shoo!"
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Sev barely registers the bugs bite. Slavery resulted in wounds far worse, but he does get nervous when a second bug joins the one still after him.
"H-help please." He says meekly as he swings his weapon again and hits nothing but air.
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Glad that Faustina had gotten behind him, Lorenzo urged the others to do so.
"Behind me, Sev. Get behind me. My armor and shield prevents them from biting me."
Lorenzo continued striking with his sword and spiked shield.
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With some breathing room, Faustinia adjusts her focus, narrowing her eyes at the little bug scuttling around Lorenzo. She levels her crossbow at it, but has a hard time aiming past Lorenzo. She lowers the weapon and points two fingers at it, and a dart of acid shoots out toward the creature. She hears Catina shooing the bugs away and her brow creases in frustration. "Catina! Stop playing around with these vermin and just exterminate them!" she commands from around the corner. More quietly, she mutters, "Honestly..."
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Lorenzo destroys another torble with his spiked shield, while Faustinia misses her target with her acid dart. Sev doesn’t manage to do better than the noble woman, and his attacks misses. Catina opts for a different strategy and tries to shove one of the torbles away: the torble tries to bite her in response, but is kicked away before it can even plunge her tiny teeth in her flesh. There are only 4 torbles remaining now.
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The remaining torbles keep biting at you with blind hunger. The one Catina kicked away comes back with renewed vigor (). This time, Catina gets bitten in her left leg by one of them.
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Very concerned that these bugs were really hurting the others, Lorenzo yelled out again, "Get behind me. They can't get through my armor and shield."
He then echoed Faustina's advice, "Catina! These aren't little kittens. Kill them!" It sounded harsher than he meant and he knew he would to apologize later.
He then continued his onslaught with sword and shield.
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Faustinia shuffles up behind Lorenzo, wincing at the wound in her leg. She leans over the young man's shoulder, calling out, "Help is incoming Sev. Watch your feet!" She points her fingers again, conjuring and letting loose a sharply pointed glob of acid at one of the bugs around the halfling.
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"I know, I know," Catina replies in helpless frustration, looking quite upset at the torble that she punted away. Mumbling something about pretty colours and forgiveness she pokes her dagger, first at the one that's returning to her, then at the other.
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"O-okay, I'm c-coming." Sev says in a shaky voice.
Before retreating near the more heavily armored human, Sev tries once more to attack another Torble. Unfortunately he can't control his shaking and his weapon nearly hits his own foot. After missing he scurries back, hoping Lorenzo can kill off the bugs.
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Lorenzo cursed as the little bug got through his armor. It hurt.
He then moved and struck with sword and shield.
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"Ugh!" Faustinia exclaims in disgust as a torble manages to crawl up Lorenzo and find the gaps in his armor - and so ends up closer to her. She pulls the dagger from her belt (which had only served as a letter opener before today) and tries to knock the bug off of Lorenzo so he can properly apply his sword to it. She visibly shudders as she reaches out to interfere, though, and doesn't end up being much help.
With the Torbles no longer right next to him, Sev drops his melee weapon and draws his shortbow, then fires at the creature still attacking Catina. His nervous shakes are easier to control with a weapon in his hands that he's more comfortable holding.
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Catina stares down at her leg, where the torble had bit her and lifts up her dress to look at the wound. The acid stung, but she had thought there would be blood. Curiously, the wound seemed to have healed itself immediately. Huh?
Seeing as the others are pretty fazed by the attack of the torbles and Lorenzo had even started yelling at her, Catina keeps up her attack, stabbing her dagger at yet another of the ooze bugs, hardly daring to look as she does the deed.
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Lorenzo fails to kill other torbles despite Faustinia’s clumsy help. Sev misses the torbles too, unable to hit them with his arrows while avoiding to hit his companions. The only one who manages to dispatch one of the tiny oozes is Catina: the tiefling stabs her dagger at another ooze bug with success.
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The remaining torbles stop attacking and flee, crawling on the tunnel walls.
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After defeating the torbles, you keep pushing forward, hoping to reach the exit as soon as possible. After a few seconds, you reach another junction: Sev’s keen eyes allows him to spot the sword marker and point you to the right way. You manage to continue in the same tunnel for almost a minute before reaching an intersection featuring three distinct tunnels. Both Catina and Sev manage to spot the sword marker pretty easily and opt for the northern tunnel.
You walk through the dark tunnel for a few seconds before you spot another junction ahead of you. The tunnel you were walking through abruptly ends in front of another one running south to north. There’s a shabby wooden door on the tunnel’s wall in front of you. ()
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As the torbles stop attacking, Catina drops to her haunches and let's her dagger fall to the floor. She listlessly pokes at the colorful but lifeless creatures left there, the ones she killed.
As soon as someone calls out to her or touches her, she rouses from her vigil. She picks up her dagger and forcefully wipes a sleeve of her shrug at her eyes and cheeks. "It's nothing, I'm OK." Before the group continues, she notes the wounds the others sustained from the ooze bugs. She hesitates for a moment, then speaks. "I might be able to do something about our wounds. That is, if Shelyn is still with me, after what we've just done." She pauses again, hesitating, then holds out her two long-fingered hands. "We'll need to be holding hands. That's how I've been taught," she says by way of apology.
With everyone holding hands, Catina says a short prayer. "Shelyn, your rose is eternal. You mend what is broken, and make it more beautiful. ... Despite the... suffering that I've caused, I'm really trying to make things better, I do. Please bless us with your gift, so that we may help you in your work." With that, warmth spreads out from Catina's hands, positive energy that soothes and heals.
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Happy to see them go, Lorenzo does not take a swing at the fleeing torbles. Keeping the rat population in check
He turns to his companions and especially at Faustina, "You are not well, Lady. We must heal you before moving forward. How's everyone else?"
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"Yes, Lorenzo, I agree," Faustinia replies, examining the bite wounds on her legs. She winces and drops the hem of her robe back down. She collects her staff and is rooting through her backpack for a healing potion when Catina pipes up about Shelyn. "Ah, excellent. Let's see what you can do for us, then." Faustinia stands in Catina's circle, maneuvering to avoid holding those strange, long hands. She tries to maintain a solemn face despite the girl's naïvete, but it quickly turns to one of relief as Catina's prayer washes over her and repairs her wounds. "Thank you, Catina, that was just what I needed. I'm sure Shelyn appreciates you protecting us."
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Faustinia stops as Lorenzo holds up his hand, and listens. "He's right. Sounds like dottari, or mercenaries, hoping to catch someone - likely us," she whispers in agreement. She looks around, as if some place to hide would appear in the narrow tunnels.
Remembering the embarrassment of the torbles, Faustinia steels herself and imperceptibly grinds her teeth. She then starts muttering arcane syllables and tracing a complicated set of signs in the air in front of her. It's time to even the odds a little bit, I think.
Catina beams a proud smile at Faustinia because of the compliment, but another look at out at the torble corpses quickly washes it from her face.
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At the sound of people approaching, Catina's first instinct is to press against the wall and hide. She looks at Lorenzo and his suggestion to flee instead, nodding with fear in her eyes. Oh, please just let them go away. "I don't want to be afraid anymore. Please help me, Shelyn..."
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Lorenzo saw how Faustina wiggled away when Catina asked everyone to join hands. Lady Faustina ended up opposite the tiefling, between himself and the halfling.
Lorenzo grasped the tiefling's hands and was suddenly conscious of his rough, stone-mason hands.
He was going to apologize when the warmth spread to him, instantly healing him and washing over his heart. He stammered, "Tha--thank you."
As both arcane and divine words fill the stinky air of Westcrown sewers, those who you heard talking before become immediately silent.
Suddenly you can hear quite clearly the sound of several people coming your way. As soon as they reach the area of your light, Lorenzo sees three men clad in what appears to be the intimidating armor of the Order of the Rack, although a closer examination instantly reveals that those men are not wearing a full plate armor like proper Hellknights; they’re actually wearing a boiled leather with chainmail reinforcements. Each of them has a longsword in his right hand, and a crossbow is tied to their belt along with a small container filled with bolts. They wear no helm, and hence their faces are clearly visible: they’re all young guys, between 16 and 23 in age. They’ve all distinctive Cheliaxan facial features and short, raven hairs. One of them holds a torch in his left hand.
As soon as they spot you, the men smirk grimly. “Lets get them!” they say, longwords at hands, ready to jump on you.
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Sev is taken completely unaware as the Hellknights appear and push them into their second fight. Will they take me back? I'd rather die here in the sewer. He thinks to himself as he raises his bow and fires over Lorenzo's shoulder. It's a difficult shot, but he's acts fast enough that the human male isn't able to get in his way too much. He watches the arrow and hopes it hits, heart beating rapidly.
He looks around hoping to find a better spot to shoot from but can't find one that wouldn't expose him too much, so he stays where he is.
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Faustinia examines the men with disapproval. "Filthy ruffians," she observes, before raising a hand toward the nearest one and conjuring a mass of acid, then shooting it off like an arrow at him. In the crowded mix of light and shadow, though, it flies off and splats nowhere near her target.
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Faustinia:
Eagle CR 1/2
XP --
N Small celestial animal
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +9
DEFENSE
AC 14, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +1 natural, +1 size)
hp [7] (1d8+1) [1d8+3]
Fort [+5], Ref +4, Will +2
SR 5
Celestial - Resist Acid, Cold, and Electricity 5
OFFENSE
Speed 10ft., fly 80 ft. (average)
Melee 2 talons [+3] [1d4+2], bite [+3] [1d4+2]
Special Attacks Smite evil
STATISTICS
Str [14], Dex 15, Con [16], Int 2, Wis 15, Cha 7
Base Atk +0; CMB [+1]; CMD [13]
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Fly +8, Perception +10; Racial Modifiers +8 Perception
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Smite evil/good 1/day as a swift action (adds CHA bonus (+0) to attack rolls and damage bonus equal to HD (+1) against evil/good foes; smite persists until target is dead or the celestial/fiendish creature rests).
Lorenzo whispers a quick prayer, "For the Heart."
His longsword and shield are up and striking at the men in front of him. he once more yells for the others to stay behind him.
"Catina, these aren't cats. they are two-legged vermin!"
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Catina's shock at seeing the Hellknights, boys still, is nothing compared to what she feels at Lorenzo's remark. She looks at him like she's never seen him before, and a number of objections come to mind. Vermin?! Is that really how he sees people? And me? Aren't they Wiscrani like us, who we should care about? Is this anything better than open rebellion? Blood in the streets, or in the sewer? All she manages, though, is a feeble "But, but..." ...are they any different from us, just doing what they feel is the right thing?
She looks from Lorenzo to Sev, who seems to act out of desperation, to Faustinia, throwing around magic with the cool attitude as if she's never done anything else.
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“Argh!” On of the Hellknights is hit by Sev’s arrow and screams his pain, his stalwart resolve suddenly fading. Quickly after, Lorenzo strikes true with his longsword, causing a slashing wound in another Hellknight’s arm. The wound quickly spreads and the Hellknight looks like he’s going to fall very soon. And actually, he falls in a matter of instants, collapsing to the floor: Sev’s arrow and Lorenzo’s sword were too much for this young armiger to handle. The other two Hellknights widen their eyes in disbelief. One of them seems to be about to vomit.
Encouraged by his success, the young paladin hence tries to follow his first attack with a shield bash, stepping forward, but the Hellknight’s armor, although only boiled leather, protects his shaken wearer.
In the meantime, a bead of light forms next to the Hellknight who has just been saved by his armor. The light forms into a heavenly eagle with golden eyes. It immediately rips into the man in front of it, tearing with beak and claw. The following scene is very coarse: the celestial eagle pops the man’s eye with its beak, then completes the job with its talons. Another Hellknights falls unconscious to the ground.
The last Hellknight standing dodges Faustinia’s acid dart and looks in Lorenzo’s eyes with burning hate. He throws himself at Lorenzo with fury. “For Westcrown!” he screams as he launches himself at the paladin. Lorenzo, however, easily parries the violent but predictable attack with his shield, taking advantage of the cover provided by the wall.
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Faustinia winces as the eagle tears into the young man. She had seen violence before, of course - live long enough in Westcrown and you were bound to - but never quite so close up. And by her own actions, no less. She exhales a shaky breath, and aims another dart of acid at the remaining boy.
Hearing Catina's protests behind her, Faustinia risks a quick look back and says, "I know it's hard, but you don't want to find out what they would do if they caught us. Stay strong, dear." Faustinia turns back toward the fight, as much to not be caught off guard as to hide the nervousness creeping into her expression.
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Lorenzo winced at the savage eagle plucked out an eye. This was real. Another man was bleeding on cause of his sword. And Catina...
He knew that he would have a lot of explaining to do. But he was doing this so he had a chance to explain and Catina have a chance to listen.
"Good. Keep watching behind us lest we become trapped. It seems there are more people looking for us."
Glad to have Faustina help steel the girl, "Yeah, what she said. Stay strong."
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Catina, feeling intensely along with the young ambitious Hellknights, looks like she might be sick as well. She hears people talking about her and nods, but the words don't really get through to her. She stumbles forward to make way for Faustinia, and puts a hand on Sev's shoulder, perhaps seeking shelter with someone reminding her of better times. "Poor fellow, you must be so scared. Please don't grow jaded and hard. I think you're really brave to be joining us like this..."
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Under normal circumstances Sev would blush when Catina shares her power with him, but he's so full of adrenaline and nerves all he can do is nod his thanks and he tries to swallow the lump in his throat before he turns and takes a step closer to the remaining enemy and draws his bow, firing another arrow.
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The Hellknight parries both of Lorenzo’s attack with his longsword. He seems to be gaining confidence as he manages to hold Lorenzo back with relative ease, and that impression is immediately confirmed when he proves able to dodge Faustinia’s acid dart and Sev’s arrow. Before Sev could even fire his bow, the armiger tries to hit him, but the wall protects the halfling. Faced with Lorenzo’s opposition, the Hellknight tries to swing his sword at the paladin, but Lorenzo is quick to react and parries the attack with his shield. “” He makes sure to shout so loud as he can: his voice echoes in the tunnels, and you end up hoping no one is there to hear.
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Lorenzo replied to the thug, "No! We are those that want to return Westcrown what it used to be. A GLORIOUS city."
He then stepped forward and swung his sword and pushed with his spiked shield.
Iomedae stand by me! or forsake me if you don't approve of my actions.
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" There's no need to shout, boy, " Faustinia scolds, nervously peeking down the tunnels as if she could watch for the word finding their way to more trouble. She points again, and seeing a fortuitous gap in the fray, lets loose yet another acidic missile.
We'll have to move quickly after this. Hopefully no one else heard that, but we can't count on it.
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The fighting, blood and yelling is just too much for Catina. She huddles close to Sev, trying to block the impressions from the horrid struggle around her. "Please just make them stop shouting..."
Sev feels the divine power flow into him again and tries to line up a better shot this time, though he's not sure he'll be any luckier than last time.
With a quick breathe he gets behind Lorenzo and fires another arrow, unfortunately in his haste he doesn't knock the arrow correctly and it falls from the bow, useless.
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Even though Sev’s arrows are inaccurate despite Catina’s divine assistance, the Hellknight must lower his defenses in order to dodge them, thus allowing Lorenzo to breach through his guard and hit him with a powerful blow of his sword. The Hellknight manages to parry the shield attack putting his sword between himself and Lorenzo, but Faustinia’s acid dart catches him unaware. The dart of acid hits the Hellknight’s unprotected face and burns it instantly, sending the young armiger to the ground almost immediately: at first he tries to wash the acid away from his face in the sewer’s murky water, but one second after he stops fighting for his handsome face. His arms fall down like useless sacks and his whole body stops moving. The Hellknight has been defeated.
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With the last of guards falling, Lorenzo breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately turned to his companions, "Everybody OK? Anyone else following us?"
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He then looked to see if he knew any of the youths that wanted them captured. They are my age. Just made the wrong choices. This could have been me.
Lorenzo then took matters into his own hands again. Hoping they did not meet further resistance, he ushered the others forward, "C'mon, we must get out of these sewers and to safety."
He then mumbled, "Janiven never told me how it was..."
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Catina stares at the Hellknight's bodies. Something tells her to check up on them, see if they're still alive, but she can't make herself move forward, closer to the carnage. She presses against the wall, hugging herself and chattering. "We... We killed them. This was just supposed to be about getting allies, right? No open rebellion, and such? And now we murdered three people." She still stares at the bodies, horrified and quite close to tears.
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Faustinia sighs with relief once the fight is over, although the sight of the acid splashing in the young man's face does turn her stomach. "I'm alright, Lorenzo, thank you. I don't know if anyone else is here, but you're right that we should keep moving. One moment, though."
The older woman approaches the downed bodies, hefting the one she just hit with all her strength to make sure his face is no longer in the water. Breathing heavily from the effort, she says, "Lorenzo, would you be so kind as to assist me?" Once the youths are safe from the threat of drowning in the sewer water, Faustinia examines them to see if any are still alive. She unbuckles their weapon belts, setting them aside and checking for any other useful portables. "We should see if they have anything useful - namely, information about us, or anyone else they might be tracking down. And if we take their weapons, they'll be less inclined to follow us immediately. We should at least toss them into the water if we don't take them ourselves."
Once she's done, she cleans the blood and muck from her hands and clothes with another simple bit of magic, frowning and wrinkling her nose. "Unpleasant business," she comments, turning away from the mangled bodies. "Catina, these boys were Hellknights, or at least working for them. Order of the Rack, if you recall. That's not just a scary name, it's where we would have ended up if we hadn't defended ourselves." Faustinia takes in a deep breath through her nose, then exhales a sigh, her face softening. With a kinder voice, she adds, "I know it's hard, but we didn't have any other options. It's admirable that you don't want to hurt people, Catina. We'll do our best not to fight, but right now we need to move. Are you alright to go?"
"Y-you th-think they might have information on us!?" Sev says as the lump in his throat finally disappears and he can speak again. His nerves take over again and he starts shaking nervously.
If that's true I'm going to have to improve my aim.
Seeing Faustinia look over the bodies Sev leans down and helps as much as he can, fitting his small hands into pockets much easier than the humans can. As the mage explains the business of Hellknights Sev nods his head along with her.
"They s-say they have to swallow acid or boiling water to even b-become a Hellknight. They aren't good people!" Even still he looks down at the men he'd tried to shoot and frowns, hoping killing doesn't become something they have to do often.
"L-let's hurry and go. Who knows if there are more people trying to find us!"