>>6129746>>6129986>>6130121>>6130122>>6130255Impa crouches down over the pool of blood and closely examines its outline. Whoever died here didn't put up much of a struggle the blood stain is compact without much disturbance of its pooling. Running her fingers around the outside of stain Impa searches for drag marks or more blood to suggest someone had moved the body. She finds none, but as her fingers probe the ground, she finds the dirt oddly loose. Strange consider the rest of the floor is well tamped down after years of being trodden on. Using her fingers Impa scrapes away at the loose earth until her hand touches something cold, hard, and metallic. Tracing the outline of the object, she calls Opheia and Naza over to help unearth her find.
In just a few minutes the object is excavated and hauled up from underneath the bloody muck. A mirror three feet tall, two wide, and oval in shape is pulled upright.
“Is this thing silver? How the hell did some peasants get their hands on something like this?” Opheia says as she examines the mirror.
Underneath the blood and mud the mirror is polished and clearly well taken care of with no blemish in sight across its smooth metallic surface.
“Mistress, that strange magic is growing stronger,” Rungin suddenly warns and almost immediately after the candle in Naza’s hand is blown out by a sudden gust of wind and the door of the hut slams shut. Plunged into darkness, everyone moves at once. Blades are unsheathed and leap into hands, <span class="mu-b">光</span> the strange command uttered by Rungin causes the paper talisman in his hand to flair brightly Illuminating the inside of the hovel. Where once there was empty darkness there is now large, hunched, strange looking stone masked creatures. As if blinded by the light, the creatures recoil, their black leathery skin turning a milky gray and tan where the light touches them. In that moment of mutual shock, Impa quickly makes a decision.
>Fight. Whatever these creatures are they don’t look friendly and clearly, they just tried to ambush you.>Escape. You don’t know what these creatures are and you don’t like fighting unknown things, in close quarters, with no way out. Push to the door and get out into the open. 