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Soon the priestess woke up as if she was asleep. As she sits up like a zombie, she stretches and says "Well I haven't slept for...my lord I don't know!" As she rubs the ground to have a sense who is around and who isn't.

She went ahead and started popping her back and hands almost as if she was breaking body parts and even her neck. "Ah why I'm I so stiff?" she states as she keeps popping her body. "I had the most interesting dream about us and a dragon" she says for anyone next to her.

Kiro saw that the two were awake and smiled, "Good morning."

He nodded to Adalwolfa, "We did, in fact, fight a dragon. We will fight more in the future. But instead I should ask if you are pained in any way. Either of you."

He looked back at Hara, "We will leave after tending to any missed wounds."

Adalwofla turn towards Kiro with a smile and says "Oh you don't have to worry about old me, just a little stiff" as she pops her back once again. She begins to stand brush off any debris on her white gown and says "The question is are you hurt?" as she gives Kiro a smile a mother can only do at him.

Jace knew he shouldn't be after Nikki's bark he just couldn't resist and raised his voice for the all group to hear but especially the Prince.
"Yeah, apparenty we're in a hurry, Hara : we are awaited by a hord of hungry horned dragon : HOORAY ! ... kyahaha, sorry I just couldn't pass it !"
He laughs at his own wordplay for a moment before trying to get back his serious : "But really : we must get going, our scaly friend is going to come back at us with more friends any time soon.."

Kiro didn't understand the joke this time. Instead, he did actually feel pained. Not physically. Adalwolfa's motherly smile reminded him that his own mother was somewhere out there, possibly being tortured by these monsters, crying and begging to join her husband in death.

He no longer smiled. However, his voice was still gentle, contradicting the now fog-like gloom he had accumulated.

"It is time to go. Nikolette, guide us."

Nikki clicked her tongue, "I get the cold treatment too?"

She started walking, not missing the commanding tone added to the prince's voice as well.

Kiro turned to Jace, "You next. Hara and Adalwolfa should follow. Pyronnis, Vallus and I should take the rear. Please go."

"Well then, i glad to found you so determined little prince, I like you better this way : it's easier to follow a man with a goal..."
Jace hopped "happily" being the tigress, as if he could taste the fading hope of the Prince like a sweet treat.
"How long until we reach a safe place, Lady Nikolette ?" he asked innocently.

The Prietess rushed over to the Prince and goes to grab his hand soflty and says "Kiro, my child, I shall take up the rear not you" her voice being stern but warm at the same time. "It's much easier for me to sense everyone's presence ahead of me and allows me to sense behind me" she explains to him. "Plus little old me isn't that helpless" she adds as she gives the prince a another motherly smile.

(Hi guys I'm raider-jack I used to be John-myrick but unfortunately I realized I had put myself as the wrong age on the site ...and after telling one of the admins of this I recived a month ban and was just scared to get back into it...not only because I had to make a new account but also because I was Affraid I had already been replaced...I'm truly sorry)she stands behind the group with caution. She's not exactly sure what's going on but she could deal with it...she swept her golden hair out of her eyes as she approached the group with a smile. She looked over the group once more with confusion. Most would think this was a fairy tale or a children's novel, or maybe that she was just plane crazy first she was at home and then suddenly poof! Not that she minded honestly she actually preferred being outside the house because it has become so boring lately .

Kiro sighed. Being treated like porcelain was annoying, but he'd go along with it if it got them moving, "As you wish."

The arrival of the new girl stalled them further, and he had had just about enough at this point.
"You there," he addressed her, "You do not appear to be a Miran, but I can sense you are not Oran either. Follow us for now, and I will explain everything when we reach a village. Please walk with Hara there in the middle. I will be on your other side."

And he continued the march.

The tallish male looked back at the newcomer that Kiro was addressing. He smiled curtly and waved to the girl, rather interesting how she found them out of no where. He mentally shrugged, Hara decided not to let himself be bothered by the thought. He had just slipped on his brown tunic and was flattening out the wrinkles and brushing the debris off.

As much as the name implied, the Braided Maiden was not a bar. In fact, it was a tree, the branches of which twisted around each other as they reached out and upward.

Nikki explained that Tiger villages do not use roads to reach them, but instead follow landmarks. Only Petal Grove was known for trading and pilgramage since it was close to Duela and housed Temple Gaium. Tigers are predators and predators stalk prey; unseen, unheard.

Kiro was glad to hear that since it meant a lesser chance of the dragon finding them. He remembered the flash of light that had blocked her from stabbing him and the wild eyes so close to that of the demon's. A strange, dark fog filled his mind and he turned his thoughts elsewhere.

"We're close." Nikki said, seeming to pick up on another landmark far away.

Not much more than a half hour's march and they had arrived.
It was a larger village, more in space than population. Every house had a garden and every garden was flourishing. It was late in the sunny season after all.

Close to where they had arrived was a bar, "The Scaredy Cat" which was already bustling with activity. It wasn't even evening yet.

Farther away was a tall building, old and practically withering. Behind it was a smaller cottage, almost hidden in the shadow of the taller one."

"That's my place. You can rest there while I gather recent information." Nikki was unsettled that this place seemed to be avoiding all the tragedy.

Jace snickered a little "I don't know why, I expected to see fieldsof catnip and random balls of yawn everywhere but . somehow this town his pretty .. active, despite its feline inhabitant."
He turned with an evil grin towards Hara and whispered : " I have so many puns coming to mond right now.... I'm soooo excited ! Aren't you...?"

Kiro wanted some rest, so he accepted Nikki's request, but he did not go to the cottage. Jace's comments went unanswered on his part, as they were not directed towards him. However, he did say this:

"You all can do as you please here, for now. Just do not leave this place. Let us all meet at the cottage at sundown. If I have need of any of you before then, I will find you."

And he left towards what appeared to be ceremonial grounds to the south.

Nikki, on the other hand, said nothing and immediately started towards the general store.

When they arrived to the small village, it has a nice feel to it. For once nothing bad has been here and no negativity doesn't seem to be present. The priest decides to follow Kiro since the way he was going, she felt something familiar that way. So she follows Kiro without saying a word and her hands gasp together in prayer.

Hara smiled fakely and weakly, he didn't meet Jace's eyes," Mm.. Yes, thrilled." He even mustered a small chuckle, but Hara hardly meant it. Instead, he took in the village's scene while heading towards Nikki's place. It was behind a larger, decaying structure; Hara silently wondered what the decaying building was. He made a note to ask about it later when the time was right.

Other than that, Hara just set their mind to check out Nikki's home accommodations, then look around the small town a little.

Kiro noticed Adalwolfa behind him, but he said nothing.

The ceremony grounds was a large plaza, surrounded by flourishing bushes, with a stone pathway leading up to the center. A large well sat off to the side. At the end of the plaza were two large statues and an altar. The left statue had her arms raised above her, long hair parted at the middle flowing down over her shoulders. Between her hands was a stone orb. The statue on the right had her arms pointed downwards, palms outward and cradling a stone orb. Her hair was short, fluffing out in a bob. Both were wearing circlets like the one Kiro was wearing now.

Rather than kneeling at the altar as he had wanted to, he decided to stand off to the side. He wanted to keep his weak moments private, and with Adalwolfa there, things were not private. Of course, the whole plaza was not private. But, it would have to do since the temple was currently taken.

He put his hand on his sword and bowed his head, praying in silence.

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Nikki's home was a mess to say the least. Clothes were dropped everywhere on the floor, and her bed was just a mattress on the floor, covered by a thick blanket. Her pillow had fallen in the gap between the mattress and the wall. It seemed she'd even forgotten about the food she'd left laying around. Bones, mostly, picked clean at least. Some scraps of vegetable peels were laying around as well, however at this point they had shriveled and turned black. There didn't even seem to be any cleaning supplies anywhere...like a broom. However, her garden seemed to still be doing fine. In fact, the outside of the house fared much, much better than the hell that awaited inside.

Jace sighed at the sight of the room. "i didn't expected anything but I'm somehow still disappointed... I mean frankly : is it that hard ? I swear ... You have no idea how I hate when people only have one pillow..."
And on that ... peculiar note... Jace grabbed the pillow and layed in Nikki's bed without a second thought, grumbling something before falling almost immediatly to sleep.

Grimancing at the uncleanliness of the home,

" Christ," He continued to take a glance around," I refuse to let all this garbage just remain. This is gross. I've never-!" Hara went on about his stanard of living while snatching the broom, kicking the door back open, and sweeping the peels, bones, and dust outside. He was acting like a stereotypical housewife, but frankly, Hara cared none of what he sounded like. Whether Jace listened or not, Hara would probably tone down his rant to a smaller and quieter one that was almost a whisper, but yet was still full of emotion and expression.

The priestess can feel the holy energy from the grounds and can feel the altar was further ahead. She gave a frown noticing that Kiro decided to stand off to the side. "Kiro, why pray here away from you goddess's tender care and affection? Why not get closer to her so she may here your prayer" she suggests as she smiles at him. "For I shall stay here, since I am not worthy to be so closed to a Goddess I do not believe in" she adds as she kneels next to him and goes into prayer.