Mommy..?|Aegestrom, Maelstrom

[Devon]

Devon quickly grabs his sword and tries to bat away the tentacles from himself and Leocadia.
"Jeez, curiousity will really get me killed one day."

[aivea]

Leocadia carefully aims a thunderbolt at where the tentacles seemed to be coming from.

"What is that thing?"

[Kender Bard]

The displacer beast shies away from the lightning bolt, giving Cobalt the opportunity to shout a warcry and lunge forward, burying his sword in the creature's spine. The displacer beast writhes aroundin agony before falling on its back and lying considerably still. With a grim look, Cobalt pulls his sword free and cleans it on the pelt of the thing before sheathing it reverently. "Are you both okay?"

[aivea]

"Yeah, I'm fine. Did it hurt you?" Leocadia responds.

[Kender Bard]

Cobalt smiles a little and shakes his head. "Just some bruises and scratches," he admits. Looking at the body, he smiles nervously and asks, "Ah, could one of you help me carry this beast back to the city?"

[aivea]

"I'll try, but Devon's a lot stronger then me," Leocadia says. "Good that you're ok."

[Devon]

Devon puts his sword away and rolls up his sleeves. "all right let's get this beast back then."

[Kender Bard]

Cobalt nods his thanks and takes one end of the beast, waits for Devon to grab the other, and starts moving it out of the cave towards Talen'sul. When he notices Osric and Kailee though, he motions for them to stop and sets his half down.

Kailee stares at Cobalt with wide, slightly hero-worshipping eyes. "Thank you for helping us, mister."

"You're welcome child," he says with a smile. To Osric, he asks, "What were you and she doing in that cave?"

[mikata]

Osric looked embarassedly down at his feet, "I suggested that we play a game, and before thinking about it, thought playing hide-and-seek would be a good idea, even if it was dark," He looked up, rolling his eyes skyward, "Goodthing I decided to cheat! I would have never been able to figure out where to look for her!"

[Kender Bard]

Kailee pouts at Osric, hurt, "You cheated? That's not fair!"

Cobalt smirks and says, "You better get this little scamp home before she gets you into anymore trouble."

[mikata]

Osric nods, avoiding eye contact with CObalt, "sure. Thank you again for rescuing us."
He turns to Kailee and takes her hand, "you'll forgive me, right?"

[Kender Bard]

Kailee blinks and nods saying, "Of course. You came and helped me when I did something I wasn't supposed to. That makes you a good friend." She smiles and gives the man a hug.

Cobalt grins at the scene and picks up the body of the displacer beast, nodding to Devon and saying, "Right, let's get this to the jail."

[mikata]

Osric looks at the carcass, while squeezing Kailee back, "What are you going to do with it?"

[Kender Bard]

Cobalt glances over and says, "Well, the city jailer is going to take it and see if it can be studied or turned into something useful, and I'll get paid. It's not the most honorable work, monster hunting, but it's the best I could do until they start accepting positions in the Talen'sul Army again."

[mikata]

"Are there a lot of monsters around these parts?"