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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9240254" data-attributes="member: 20459">As the others are resting to recover from the battle with Gulthias - and as Jendi cleans and examines closely his new prize, Mylistra walks about the crypt, taking in the dark energy, and examines the walls, columns, floor, etc. There is still a strong sense of the profane here near the altar of sacrifice and in the chamber below that needs to be cleansed before they are safe to be left. It feels monumental, but, as with any gargantuan task, one has but to begin.Her thoughts wander through their recent battle against the vampire - once Gulthias, Stygian elf, Guardian of the Ruby Spire. What was it about him that was familiar? Mylistra thinks she remembers his story, but his face would not have been visually part of the narrative. No, this memory is older than that: from before her escape from below. Those eyes - so memorable! And ... a similar name, she thinks she can remember, also beginning with "Gul," something in the Old Tongue meaning "pale" or "ghost" or ... Guldril? Guldrinn? Guldrinna? The moment of seeing the face is almost lost to memory.***The young halfling watches the beautiful witch in her examination of the chamber. His great-aunt Rubee would be jealous of her mastery of disguise, he thinks to himself with a smile. Her gorgeous dark skin Mylistra has not bothered to hide, but her image is not of the Stygian elf he knows her to be and whom he observed last night in Jendi's mother's cabin in the woods. Nemo is still astounded by how human she looks - nothing fey about her from casual observation, nor even his own careful one ... unless he truly takes note. After all, her face is so elegantly narrow and delicate. She has surely done something to make her cheeks appear more round, her ears so completely without tapering that her appearance makes his elfling friend appear full elf in comparison. She walks back to them and holds them in keen observation, as if taking in their levels of health and exhaustion ... which for Nemo and Toriq are admittedly great. While he is glad for the strategy she suggested earlier and which has proven to be sound in performing the Rite of Comrades' Succor - it seems obvious that he and Jendi's sister will be the more likely to be in close combat in situations such as these - their physical wounds and their inner bruises will take some time fully heal. The witch gives them both encouraging smiles and a few of the berries she still has from what Toriq had gathered during their journey through the forest. Nemo returns the smile with gratitude.Then she says to them that they are almost done for the day and points to the blood on the floor. "We need to cleanse this floor and release Abaddon's blood from this place, here and in the chamber below. Not to mention purify what was surely Gulthias's place of rest. We must return the sacred to this place that once held light." She explains that all this is necessary for them to have a peaceful place to sleep this night.</blockquote>

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