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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3697916" data-attributes="member: 11760">"No," Emus says, offering her a beefy hand. "Not yet, anyway. Artos is down for good, but we know that there's more than just him to deal with. Sorry to ask this of you, girly, but we need to keep moving. Can you stand?"Hazel grabs Emus' forearm and grits her teeth as he hauls her up. She leans on him for a moment until the lightheadedness abates."Looks like."Flower is still playing around in the newly acquired cloak when Tucker approaches him."I don't think that fits you, Tiny. Can I see it?"Tucker spreads it on the ground, piles the loot on it and begin to drag the whole thing over toward the library.Behind him, Emmerson clears his throat in what he intends to be an indignant manner."And leave partially complete skeletons, so they can raise them again? I don't think so. Everyone, pick up a hip bone."Carrying strategically chosen bones, the group makes its way across the dry yellow grass toward the library. Bufer catches up to them a moment later, tossing away Artos' helmet having liberated the fallen paladin's skull from inside it."Told the bastard I was going to use his skull for a chamber pot," the gnome says simply. "I mean to keep my promise."Inside the library, they spread out the cloak and pick through the gear. Hazel tugs at the cloak, sending the haul rolling slowly off one side, clanking as it goes."Think I can borrow this one?" Her cheeks warm as she sheepishly smiles at Tucker. "I kind of left mine in the attic."Hazel pulls the cloak tightly around herself, feeling warm and comfortable inside it. She curls up under the cloak with her back to a shelf full of crumbling parchment and is asleep within moments."Try the armor on, Tucker, and take one of the glowing weapons," Emmerson says. "I have nothing else left to do. I hope we can take a few hours' rest and pray that on Godsday, our strength is renewed. I suggest those of us in more need take some rest and impose upon those who are hale and hearty to watch over us.""I'm not touching anything until someone can guarantee that it's not going to possess me," Tucker mutters. "I feel pretty good, so I'll take the first watch."The sun continues to rise in the sky as he stands watch over the others, although it's lost behind a hazy sky.As the day wears on, the silence grows oppressive. There are no sounds of birds, no chirp of insects, only the sound of a light breeze rattling the brittle leaves of the black ivy together.The deputy becomes convinced there's a woman in the library with him, but no matter how he whips his head around, he can never spot her. He practically jumps out of his skin when the others finally begin to awake.</blockquote>

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