>>6328888Maybe it's your nerves or something, possibly hearing that the undead don't even stop when it's daytime, but you just decide to comb your eyes over the slopes once more to stay vigilant. Being careful couldn't hurt when you've never been out so far at night, especially when Skitterbrick isn't too far away from your left side. In fact, you give it a stare just to let it know you're keeping your head on a swivel and then face forward again.
>126 (incredible and critical success.)>(Even slimmed down to your singular +10 bonus this is a critical success. You have come to grasp Fear Sense, exclusive to using Xandin's bindings, earning bonuses to actions related to tracking and intimidating those with minds capable of fear.)Something changes for just a moment and a faint sensation draws your focus to Heyra beside you, like a smell or a sound. Something not too different from how you perceive spirits more clearly once you became a Totemist, and you don't know why but she doesn't seem to notice it herself. You turn your head and feel/smell/taste/hear/see the same thing coming from Skitterbrick, in odd quantities that are and aren't there.
And you look upwards just out of curiosity and notice a small bit of it flying around slowly in the night sky, like a firefly of sorts but much much subtler, and you realize that you're able to see something that's doing its best to hide from you all.
The shape of it is very strange, pulsing in a sort of subtle sensation that matches this new way to look at things, and you realize it's almost like a kite. Well, if a kite could fly itself and used the sides to glide around like a bird. It's very slow, carefully slow you'd say, and picks up speed just slightly as it does a lazy circle around your group and then goes off towards the valley.
You point up and indicate where it is with your finger and speak up. "Teacher, do you happen to see that spirit up there, heading southwards to the direction of the valley?"
She lifts her head and tries to make it out and comes to a stop in front of you all and snaps her fingers twice to get a tighter formation. "I do, and Anntaris isn't sharing good news. What you've seen is an ocean spirit, not something that should ever be around these parts. The nearest body of water that could possibly be its home is well over two months of travel from here. I don't know what it's doing in the mountains but something or someone brought it here. From now on, weapons out."
"Understood", you and Heyra say and you bring your blade forward and she begins to recite a chant that causes her Fellblaze to start creating embers.
