They slowly stood back on their feet, to witness the end of the fight. Miinela and Alir'Navel ending the last demons, bruised, bloody and tired but satisfied.
Elvindel slightly groaned, untensing his muscles. "Good fight men, we lost one alas, but we paid a low price for a surprise attack from a balor and his little army. Where's Tyuul ?"
Everyone glanced around, Raelk kneeing down trying to find something on the ground, quite hard with the big battle they had... he softly sighed and stood back, looking around for hints. He slowly noticed broken tree branch and the like, like if someone rushed in the woods. He slowly followed the tracks to the source. It wasn't a rushing person who had done all of this...but someone who was blasted and knocked in the wood by a big impact or explosion. Which he confirme, seeing Tyuul unconscious, knocked against a tree, the bark damaged by her quite rude stop against it. She was still breathing, faintly, but she was alive, he gently put her on his shoulder and went back into the scene of battle.
" Here she is, badly damaged, but alive, she'll heal." Slowly putting her down on the ground, Elvindel quickly scanning her state and nodding to Raelk's words. "Alright then, we head back ho..." the words dieing on his lips as the planar breach seems to suddenly wither away and implode. All of them looking at it with big eyes.
"That's just grand !" Snarled Miinela, kicking a puddle of gooze a demon just turned into. "Calm down Miinela, it's not so bad to be on the Prime." cooed Alir. "You think we're on a sightseeing trip Alir'Navel !? No we're not ! We had orders and now we're cut from the others !" snarled Elvindel, obviously not happy of situation. "Let us calm ourselves gentleman, we shouldn't worry about this right now, we know of a way to get back, the real problem right now is how to remain hidden so long from the primers ? We do not want to attract too much attention don't we hm ?" calmly said Alk'Ahur.
Raelk sighed and slowly nodded, it was the truth, and all he was thinking about since they stepped in. Alir softly came beside him, brushing herself slightly on him, one of her fingers idly caressing his arm. "What are you worried about ? We could use some free time don,t you think ?" she grinned and grabbed one of his buttocks a moment and winked. He just sighed, obviously he really wasn't enjoying the idea of the Prime... at all. Something in him was saying to him he wasn't welcomed, nor should he had ever ventured here.
" What are our options Alk'Ahur ?" suddenly asked Elvindel, cutting Raelk of his line of thoughts, snapping back to reality. "Well, for now I'll veil us with illusions, it'll give us some time to get away of this messy place, heal Tyuul and have a better look at our current situation. Maybe Raelk could go scout ahead and try to locate where we are, while Alir and Miinela stand ready while you and I decide of our next course of action." Elvindel nodded to the wise one words, and soon everything went as he said. They entered a quite rich wood, a fine natural domain, with lots of animals. At first weren't scared, like they used to the presence of humans, but suddenly irrationally and scared when the "humans" were approaching.
Raelk came back some hours later, the devils had made a camping camp, they were so used to do something out of nothing... "It seems we are somewhere in Solinar's woods, not the best of place to be, it's a shining city of paladins, clerics and all, but as well, the good news is it's ordered so we at least get that. I spotted a path, we could take if we want to approach without causing too much of a fuss, the south gate's often used."
" Hmm... I am not too warm about the idea to go in such a place, but we need an ordered place, with magic and quite crowded to open our portal." Softly said Elvindel, looking to Alk'Ahur and Raelk. "Bha, they are only humans, we can enter their city, do our business without causing troubles and we'll be done with it in no time and they'll never know we were in there." confidently said Miinela. "Yes, I suppose to act normally, swiftly and without asking many questions and just do our business would be the safest way to do it, I'll be able to stand the veil, maybe even use invisibility and a nondection ward, find a proper place, do the rite and off we'll go." said Alk'ahur nodding to himself, already planning their moves.
"Aww, oh well, less fun for us, but we'll soon be back to Hell I would assume" said almost poutingly Alir'Navel. "I was about to find a proper place for such a thing everyone, calmly said Raelk, it is below a tailor place, a dark underground area, would be perfect for us. As soon Tyuul's back I can show you"
They all looked at their slowly recovering female comrade. Then Raelk quickly glanced around... "What is it ?" asked Elvindel. "I am not sure... I felt a presence there for a moment... maybe it's the Prime that’s making me ticklish but I felt we were observed..." almost whispering, looking around, alert. Then slowly shook his head... unsure if the Prime's troubling his senses. But someone was actually watching with an evil spark in her eyes, a chuckle on her lips, fun was beginning...new targets awaiting.
_________________ "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour".
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