Stories of my brain

Adaly barely eats and decides to spy on Es-Vahelieth. The spell connecting with Es-Vahelieth, she can see through his eyes, he is observing the ritual chamber, it clearly being readied for the ritual, whatever it entails.

Two minutes pass, Es-Vahelieth not having done anything, but he starts the ritual. He speaks “Twice now you have fled before me, there will not be a third. I am Wrath Inevitable. I am the tidal wave, the earthquake. Armies tremble at the mention of my name. I am Es-Vahelieth, Warlord of the Dawnless Night and you will fall before me.”

Adaly can feel someone grabbing her, so she shifts back, seeing a bird near their table and Amara putting her in the bag of holding. She hears the last bit of Es-Vahelieth’s speech from the bird, and happily complies going into the back of holding.

Adaly reconnects to her spell, and sees the temple starting to teleport around her allies. Several hounds and demons now surrounding them, while she knows her body is in the bag of holding around Amara.

Amara rushes towards Es-Vahelieth when Es-Vahelieth telekinetically pulls the bag of holding towards him, and turns it inside out. Adaly this time fully returning to her body lays on the floor looking up at the general that has filled her nights with nightmare. There is no running here, not without abandoning Amara, which Adaly would never do.

Adaly spams spells towards Es-Vahelieth, while Amara fights him. Her uncle completely ignores Amara, only has eyes for Adaly “You bastard, if you kill me my soul will truly be lost. Ilhoketh will punish you for that” Adaly yells while being struck by his sword. She feels her blood poring out, she will not last long.

Es-Vahelieth laughs “Oh you little bitch, he will be happy, finally no Itaniel. I will be rewarded.” He hits her once more, she can feel herself barely holding on and does something she expected to never do, she pushes Es-Ihiroketh’s pearl into one of her wounds, activating it. At least that would be a ticket out. “You…” Adaly starts before she is struck again and loses her consciousness.

Darkness surrounding her, she feels claws pulling on one side of her, and on the other side bony fingers surround her arm. She feels being pulled into two different directions, but the bones winning, a small joy fills her, before a heavy sadness comes over her. She doesn’t want to die, she needs to leave, she needs to…..

She gasps for breath seeing Amara above her fighting Es-Vahelieth, her throat hurting. She coughs and sees blood all around her. She moves away still casting her spells, taking a healing potion herself. She feels so disoriented when Es-Vahelieth pulls her close again. His sword hitting her, she feels barely hanging on.

Realizing moving away does nothing she just positions herself in a way that she can cast spells at Es-Vahelieth, hurting him, but also her chill touch preventing him from healing. While she herself tries to keep her healing up.

He keeps hitting her though yelling “Why won’t you stay DEAD?” while she feels her consciousness leaving again, waking up to Amara forcing a healing potion down her throat. This repeats a few times before she wakes up to Amara and no Es-Vahelieth.

She looks around and sees Jeremy unconscious and Livia barely holding on while they are surrounded by demons and devils. They make quick work from the remaining devils. Mezearan was also present but decides to leave on his own. Livia still goes down but only two demons remaining.

Adaly worried about the demon attacking the unconscious Livia, she starts yelling and drawing it to her. They comply and go to her setting their teeth into Adaly’s arm, and she faints again.

The darkness starts surrounding her again, the bony arms pulling on her soul impatiently. But once more she opens her eyes and sees Livia staring at her. Adaly swallows, looks around, the danger is gone. Amara is going through the corpses while Livia asks “Are you okay?” Adaly just nods, looking around, realizing how close she came to dying, realizing this was not a fight she should have been able to survive.

She feels the adrenaline leaving her body and she can feel herself becoming sick. She rushes to a side and throws up, from her almost empty stomach. The rest of the party looks at her in concern, but they are interrupted by a group of guards that are yelling outside. Amara goes to yell back and find a weak spot to create an exit.

Adaly recovers herself, cleans her face, and starts collecting all the stuff that Es-Vahelieth threw out of the bag of holding. She starts packing it again, surprisingly none of her bloodvials broke. She is happy that the only secret she was keeping is in a none describe black box, so the paladins don’t look to weird at her stuff. They might be surprised by the amount of bloodvials, but she lived a long dangerous life, she can explain that.

Once Adaly has her stuff she looks at the paladins “You guys okay?” Livia says “Yes” and Jeremy just looks pale, but he nods.

Adaly walks towards Amara and helps her with the last bit Amara first walks out but Adaly and the paladins quickly follow. There are some guards that are looking surprised at them, Adaly recognizes none of them “Hello all, you guys should get Captain Damon, he will be interested in this, a devil dropped a temple on the tavern. This sounds more like paladin business then you guys. Tell Damon we, Adaly, Amara and paladin friends, were here, and we shall come back and give a full statement, however right now we have a different appointment and need to leave.”

The leader of the guards goes to stand in front of her “We have to ask you to stay, and give more explanation” but Adaly ignores him and just continues walking. His hand goes to Adaly’s shoulder. Amara immediately grabs his hand and lifts the ground slightly when Adaly turns around and makes her eyes look terrifying with thaumaturgy.

“You do NOT want to test my patient now, small men. We just KILLED a devil, way more threatening than any of you… If we stay now, other devils might follow. Now once more we have an appointment and will return when it is safe. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?” Adaly spits out.

The guard looks terrified at them but stands down “We shall contact captain Damon”. Adaly turns around again and starts leaving. They go to once more to a bathhouse to clean themselves. Adaly is covered in blood, they cannot meet Guillemina like this.