Adaly starts hyperventilating and she can feel Amara hesitantly going for her halberd. “I am still myself” Adaly barely manages to bring out, breathing heavily, she is terrified. She cannot believe her father spotted her, and her mother protected her in there. She grabs her necklace, feels tears filling her eyes, while she walks a bit away from the rest of the party, Amara immediately following.
The space in the wellspring is not big. Not enough for her to truly get some privacy. Adaly swallows “He…. My father saw me… but I am okay” she brings out with a shaking voice. The rest of the party looks in shock towards her.
Sam steps closer towards her and she steps back, not wanting to deal, not wanting to talk. Sam nods in understanding “If you want to talk, I am here for you… but I will give you some space.” Adaly nods in thanks and keeps walking up and down.
Sam, Livia and Gevaudan start making a bit of a comfortable space, while Adaly keeps pacing and Amara just follows. Adaly sits down and grabs some of the book they took from the vampire, and lays them down in front of the rest of the party “Be careful with the books I want to sell them, and they are in good condition, however it is good as a passing time”
Adaly grabs one of the books in infernal which is about the plant life in the 6th hell. She can feel the eyes on her, Sam grabs one of the books but all of them clearly worried, a tension in the space.
She feels tears in her eyes and just reads the book. After about half an hour she is too annoyed with the stares and tension that she closes the book and looks around the party “We can talk about what happened if you guys want, but there is not that much I can tell you. Before asking any questions, something captured me, tried to get into my head.” Adaly swallows and holds her necklace.
Sam comes closer again and she raises her knees to her chest, shielding herself making herself smaller. He stops and sits, relatively close but giving her some space. “You are saying tried to get into your head, what… what stopped him?” Sam asks clearly wanting to stay on mission but also trying to be nice to her.
Adaly kindly smiles at him, showing him she understands. “My necklace…. It protected me. It… I managed to ask him about Imrior, he is still alive. For the rest I tried to ask superficial questions, but he just answered vague about the ritual he wants to sacrifice your sister in, said it didn’t have a name.”
Meanwhile Adaly sends a subtle spell to Amara ‘He… Es-Grenalieth was right, he is going to turn a black tiefling to devil again.’ ‘Do you know who?’ Amara reacts and that question worries her.
Livia looks at her “Who gave you that amulet?” Adaly feels tears forming and sadly smiles “It is the only thing I have and know about my mother. Till today… I am not a sentimental person, you guys know that… but when it protected me… I had a moment of weakness, wanted to know more and a blew a question trying to learn her name… Eleshra” Adaly says while taking a second and subtly messaging Amara ‘I asked before if I was the target, his reaction was maybe, so I don’t think he has decided anything.’ A few seconds pass before Amara reacts ‘Okay… maybe Imrior is his target.’
Sam moves a tiny bit closer to her, grabbing her hand “We should not risk this anymore… thank you for getting some information, but now that he knows you can do this there is too much risk.” Adaly nods in agreement “I am sorry Livia, for not having more information” Livia smiles towards her “Don’t worry about it, we already have more information, thank you for that.”
Adaly lowers her legs and cleans up the books “I do think we should try to get some sleep” and the party nods in agreement finding locations to lay down. Adaly walks up to Sam’s bedroll and goes to lay next to him.
He smiles and wraps his hand around her, they fall asleep in this intimate hold. Adaly never was comfortable with people holding her during sleep, except this time, Sam’s embrace meaningful, calming.
After 8 hours they get back to the Leviathan. The party is discussing how to deal with the problem in the next room, when suddenly an explosion surrounds them. The fire consuming the Leviathan flesh and all of them look back in surprise.
Adaly quickly rushes back in the hall to find Peranon having cast a fireball on them “You mother fucker you just don’t know when to leave it alone” and she cast her highest level spell on him while quickening her chill touch. Even before Peranon can react he falls over, going unconscious from her spells.
The rest of the party joins while Adaly continues attacking the clearly corpse of her brother. “Adaly he is death” Amara says at some point “I know…” she grunts before picking up the corpse and putting it in the bag of holding. Amara looks surprised at her “He is still my brother… I would like to burry him, later… not at this place.” Adaly brings out feeling a stab of guilt filling her.
Adaly could relate to Peranon, if anybody killed Amara, Adaly would lose it too. She did kill Peranon in self defense, but maybe they shouldn’t have gone after Zalia… Maybe than her siblings could have been persuaded to join them…
Adaly snaps out it before they continue their mission. They are still in a demon, still trying to reach the hells, no time for thinking about her relationship with her siblings.
Stories of my brain 