They could pick up some of the snakes themselves. Perhaps someone around here would delight in studying them, or she could turn her time and eye to understanding what had been summoned when the red apples had been plucked from the ancient tree.
"At least then he'd be facing the same weirdness. Though imagine, him recalling neither of us, then telling us about yet another singular survivor! We can start keeping a list."
After the curtsy, she performs am abortive bow in return, more Orlesian for the ironic turn of it all. Then she looks again to the proper groomed pathway, as if about to step onto it. Instead, Ellana pauses, then reverses direction entirely, stepping back through the scattered corpses to reach the scattered weapons driven back down by their combined magics. Not that one, not that one, no, no... Ah!
She crouches down, pulling a dagger out covered in minimal ichor.
"Just in case," she says as she stands again, looking around one last, brief time. "Alas that none of these are staves."
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"At least then he'd be facing the same weirdness. Though imagine, him recalling neither of us, then telling us about yet another singular survivor! We can start keeping a list."
After the curtsy, she performs am abortive bow in return, more Orlesian for the ironic turn of it all. Then she looks again to the proper groomed pathway, as if about to step onto it. Instead, Ellana pauses, then reverses direction entirely, stepping back through the scattered corpses to reach the scattered weapons driven back down by their combined magics. Not that one, not that one, no, no... Ah!
She crouches down, pulling a dagger out covered in minimal ichor.
"Just in case," she says as she stands again, looking around one last, brief time. "Alas that none of these are staves."