Bribes and better weapons, aid and succor, they would need them all before this quest was done. They had gained a moment's respite, at least. A chance to heal and remake plans with the new information they had gathered. It hadn't been the resounding victory they might have wished, but it wasn't complete failure either. They were alive and able to try again.
Jigano sang to the luxere outside the Hall to calm and coax them close again while Kiada called for Deimos. He leaned heavily on the spear that had punched through his thigh and then served as his walking staff to hobble back to the guild on, but he had kept a grim watch all around them in the glow of his lantern and Auni's horns until the door was open and then he slipped within, closing it firmly behind and locking it as he turned to face the rather full foyer. Kiada and Deimos in an embrace, Zuriel near at hand to heal the young woman's wounds, left little space, but this was a pause, not the end of the journey, and Jigano hobbled further inside, eyes scanning for someone who could help him.
The journey back had given him time to think, and to ponder what he had learned from Sam of the failed attempt to talk to the monsters before. Obviously removing implanted upgrades from the bookmaker and Rexanna was out of the question, but the hover board...
" Remi ?" He called, hurt and weary but determined still. They had suffered a setback but not a defeat, and he wasn't ready to give up just yet. "Isla?"
Jigano sang to the luxere outside the Hall to calm and coax them close again while Kiada called for Deimos. He leaned heavily on the spear that had punched through his thigh and then served as his walking staff to hobble back to the guild on, but he had kept a grim watch all around them in the glow of his lantern and Auni's horns until the door was open and then he slipped within, closing it firmly behind and locking it as he turned to face the rather full foyer. Kiada and Deimos in an embrace, Zuriel near at hand to heal the young woman's wounds, left little space, but this was a pause, not the end of the journey, and Jigano hobbled further inside, eyes scanning for someone who could help him.
The journey back had given him time to think, and to ponder what he had learned from Sam of the failed attempt to talk to the monsters before. Obviously removing implanted upgrades from the bookmaker and Rexanna was out of the question, but the hover board...
" Remi ?" He called, hurt and weary but determined still. They had suffered a setback but not a defeat, and he wasn't ready to give up just yet. "Isla?"
