Waking up from the best rest Esstrey had in a long time, she immediately regrets taking her nap. Her test real estate acquisition is absolutely trashed, as if a giant spider clumsily strode in and knocked most things down. Roots and mushrooms are scattered all over the pce, and a jar full of glittering powder smashed to the floor as well. The powder doesn't look dangerous, so Esstrey decides to check up on a more important matter first. Desding into the basement, she finds that her captives have been utterly sughtered, with their heads looking drained of fluid. She quickly has some blood from the corpses flow through to the heads, and finds that all the brain matter is missing. If Esstrey knows anything about her situation it's probably the parasite gathering information while she was asleep, si didn't kill her when it very much could it seems to be pnning something else.
Heading back upstairs, she checks through her notes ohing, and finds that as she predicted, it did indeed destroy the notes she had on it. Such a shame for the parasite that this notebook was a decoy set up to discover more about it. Pulsing a wave of blood magic through the shack, she finds the true ill carved in blood beh the nightstand. Using a nearby jar of blue liquid (which is apparently blood) she carves more information in the nightstand. It wiped the notes on it indiscriminately, regardless of nguage used. That means it must have gotten some sort of imprint on basiowledge Esstrey knows, but it didn't know more advahings like the nightstand carving. Furthermore, it didn't wipe anything else. Whether they were things as trivial as the surrounding area, or as vital as what the witch had in ste.
Esstrey fondles a small bag of magnesium hydroxide as she siders that st part. She knows a few more applications of this that don't involve g heartburn or used as a xative. Determio fully trahe books, she picks up another recipe book of the witch, and opens it to where she left off. That's odd... it seems... readable somehow. bine bloodroot with the leaves of dying kraz fig tree to create cough medie, boil said cough medie in slime extrad add dried pieces of the heart of any animal to create a basic health potion. Many more recipes that are simple to make are tained within the book, and the title of the book also bees readable to Esstrey. 'Potions finners, by the Witch of the S' is the name of the book, and is most likely written by chi wings or her predecessor.
Esstrey's research is interrupted by a life signature approag the hut. Judging by the streams of the blood vessels, most likely a child. 1 meter i, long snout, short and stocky build, and cold-blooded. Esstrey keeps reading through the books as the unknowure closes the distance, tact will happen at any moment now. At some point, the child runs faster toward the shack, most likely seeing the busted down door the [Kobold]s made. Esstrey grips her shovel loosely as the creature stumbles i looks like a small lizardman, with some more drake-like features than is usual with their kind.
"Great witch! Brood mother sick! Me wants brood mother not to die yet!" The small thing speaks in warbled tones of a different nguage, but she still uand the lizard.
"What the hell are you?" Esstrey asks the lizard, and it just now sees Esstrey properly. The titanic mermaid towers far above it, aone is andirey doesn't know how she uands the lizard, or why she talk to it, but such questions are for a different time and pce.
"Me [Kobold]! Me desdant of mighty [Dragon]! Me Kuda!" Kuda states it with impressive pride, sidering the mermaid currently looking down on the 'great desdant of mighty dragon'.
"[Kobold]? Again? Really? How many damn [Kobold]s are in this pce? You know what, don't ahat. Here's a better ahe witch you are looking for is dead." Esstrey returns to reading her book, aures for Kuda to leave with her cw.
"Where is body of witch?" Kuda doesn't get the hint and starts looking around the hut.
"I ate her, now get lost kid." Esstrey gets mildly annoyed, but quickly distracts herself with the tents of her book.
"You ate witch? That means you witow! You cure mother! And Kuda not kid! Kuda great hunter in tribe!" Esstrey closes the book she was reading with an annoyed look on her face.
"Such fideo be making demands of me. I thought you were a kid because you are so small and incapable nizing the situation, but you really are an adult, aren't you? Fine, bring your mother over, she sounds like an excelle subject." Esstrey has a predatory smile pstered on her face as she looks at Kuda, who seems wholly ued by the attempted intimidation.
"Yes, yes! I get mother now!" Kuda is still oblivious to the situation, and still very small. Her little cwed feet make rushed tapping noises as she runs out of the sha some random dire away.
"Am... am I not intimidating anymore? Have I lost my touch?" Esstrey's p gets interrupted by a stab of pain ing from her tail, she swiveled around rapidly with a furious look on her face.
A small bck cat that had embedded itself irey's tail sees that it has been spotted, and flees away into some dark er of the hut. Esstrey for one, is simply left w multiple things happening during that entire debacle.
The [Kobold] bandit was capable of advanced magic, Kuda was pletely ued by her intimidation attempt, and now a cat somehow mao approach Esstrey pletely ued even wherey sense blood. What kind of dimension did she step into that the only thing that makes some sense is the one she's carrying in her spine?
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