>>6346551You stare good and hard at the spirit as you toss that around in your head. There are several questions that absolutely need to be asked now so you get to the first and maybe the most important one.
"First off, how do you even know about that thing? We only found out it was some kind of spirit within the month, but it's apparently been causing small little mutations for years now." You speak with pure honesty as the spirits around you grow restless. "Mind explaining to me who even told you we had some control over it?"
For her part, the spirit tries to perceive any kind of lie you may have told but obviously has none to find. "We have been told by Totemists on the past that there has been a dangerous power on the mountain. Even the dragons are wary of it."
"Is that why the pair was resting here? Are you planning some kind of raid?" You press harder now, eager to get about the what and why of the dragons' activities. "It won't work anyways, the barrier to the four peaks still holds strong. We have enough to deal with thanks to this Change spirit nonsense, so if you'd be so kind as to tell the dragons if they want to fight the. Totemist Oranya will blast another few of them to charcoal like last time."
She frowns, but not angrily. Something confused her. You're not sure why but it seems that something that was scaring her is smothered by the sudden question she asks you. "Please repeat that, sir Totemist. What do you mean by raid?"
"The dragons have tried to raid us before when the barrier weakened just enough for them to break through. It won't be happening again."
Something in her mind keeps growing over the sense of nervousness she had earlier and she only seems more and more uncertain now. You don't really know what's bothering her but there are a few things you've noticed already.
She's mostly concerned about the fact you came from the mountains. She knows about Change, or perhaps something related to it, maybe even another instance of a Change spirit. She also didn't ask anything about this barrier you mentioned, so perhaps that's some knowledge the dragons shared?
She's silent so you go on a gut feeling and try to clarify some thing.
"This damn Change or whatever it is has been mutating monsters and causing chaos in the spiritual courts up and down the mountain. It's got spirits that know of it more riled up than the dragons have and to make matters worse it seems to just be floating around the mountains out of sight. Nobody can find it, the best thing we've done is just see traces of it, so you accusing us of raising some kind of weapon against the dragons is absolute nonsense."
The crowd around begins to whisper for a time, the spirits are all talking to each other at a volume you can't really make anything clear at, but you know something you've said seems to contradict the situation as they know it.
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