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13th of Grolm, 578

Healer needed

by Zhang Sephia

Now that all of the hay bales are on fire, I take a brief moment to check on the gate and it seems to be shutting down - at least it seems to be based upon my experience with campfires. The two axes that the demon prince was swinging around are laying on the ground beside the gate. I decide that I do NOT want to touch them to check on them and no one else should touch them either. I spare a brief glance and see that Spiro has his prey under control and I do not want to interfere with his kill. Continuing to glance around I see Mystery and Justice Mullins to the east and decide that is probably the best use of my talents. Xifeng and I fly over to be between them so if they decide to fire first and ask questions later, they will have to risk hitting their other half.
 
I walk up to them and see that they are choking on some of those griefgall seedlings! I send Xifeng to see if she can grab the one out of Justice's mouth while I work on getting the one out of Mystery. I grab it out, drop it on the ground and drive my knife into its cold, green, little heart. It dies and I flick it off. I check on Xifeng and she has managed to kill that one as well, but it looks like maybe one of the tentacles has managed to get into her beak. I rush over and tell her to NOT bite me and I take her into my wings, hold the hinge of her jaw and wrangle my smallest talon to see if I can snare the tendril and remove it before she chokes. Then she twitches and I think my talon might have actually pushed it further into her throat. Not good.
 
I take a firmer grip and manage to yank it out of her throat. I then turn and ask the two how they feel. Justice manages to hobble over to Mystery and then tell me that he doesn't believe in the orders they are being given as they do NOT follow the ranch hand code and it is almost as though they have something evil inside them. Since they have glowing horns, eyes, fingers I find that easy to believe. I still have two rose wafers with me, but no glass bottles. I hand them each one and they Xifeng and I fly towards the way Bruthazmus was going. I am sure that he needs help by now. I just hope that they are able to expel and keep the demons at bay. I don't find him close to the barn so Xifeng and I continue flying northwesterly - pretty sure that is the direction we felt him going. I focus on flying as hard and fast as I can once I see several different fights ahead of me. Xifeng falls behind some because she is a hawk - not a falcon.
 
I see Bull Hester in very bad shape and I know that I have a few rose wafers left. It is very sad that I do not know anything of the healing arts. Perhaps I should take some time when we are next in our guild hall to take some lessons or perhaps read a few books? Anyway, I hand him two and while he is busy eating one, I take a shot at the demon possessed cow that he is trying to kill. Somehow I miss, even though it is laying on the ground. Perhaps being demon possessed provides more help than I have considered. I prepare to shoot again, taking more time. This time the arrow goes in and I can hear the sizzle from here. I turn to make sure that Bull eats another rose wafer and he starts to get a little bit of color in his face. Bart rambles by and checks in, but I tell him that can handle it. I dig around in my bag and get out my last rose wafer and feed it to Bull. Maybe he will survive now? I take another shot at the cow, but I miss. I told Bart I got this and I have got this - eventually......
 
 
 

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