The walk back to the temple is mostly uneventful to the ladies. Cosmic though, humming as she walks, blasted several minor demons, and 3 stupid vampires with out bothering to do more than quietly chant a spell. The ladies were so busy talking over the events of the day that they missed the few times Cosmic stopped and did subtle Holy Chi Spells at these idiot low level vampires.

Part of that though is the fact that she tends to hum when outside the walled compounds, or she has so far.

Back at the temple, no possessed guards this time. No shadow demons either. The shadow demons understand perfectly well that if they get in the elfs detection range, she will hunt them down and remove them. Violently. So they make themselves scarce while trying to work out how to 'get her'. The fact that her aura is there even when she is sleeping is just an added level of annoyance to these things (it extends out 10ft from her at all times. Just increases in potency when she starts to focus on it. - which makes it hard to send in a possessed assassin as they tend to get exorcised when they get with in range of her.)

The ladies first head to to the inn to drop off their purchases and check in with the inn keepers. Edora slipped off at one point, before they went in.

Hal, the night clerk (first innkeeper Cosmic met) nods to them as Esmerelda takes her new things to her room and Cosmic stops and Blesses the building, thus removing all the insects that tried to move in during the day while she was not here. Takes out many lesser demons and spirits to, her version of Pest removal takes on all new meanings to these people. The innkeepers do not mind one bit though. A few joke about how it does not seem to work on people like Stan and his friends.

Cosmic points out, Stupid and Self Entitled are not demonic in nature, if they were her life would be so much easier. General amusement over that.

Esmerelda returns about the time she stated that, "Boy is that not the truth. She ran in to so many self entitled and stupid people today. From this overbearing woman who tried to force her to give up her shoes, cause she found them ugly. To this fat man who tried to trick the guards in to stealing her wheeled chest and giving it to him, then these clerks at the mages guild. She sold the guild an item for a line of credit with them, so she could get needed supplies and these fools thought to try and put tracking spells on her to find out where she got it. That so did not work as she can see magical aura's just fine. Removed those spells as they watched. Those 2 are now on probition for pulling that stunt."

Cosmic sighs, "Story of my life, Asshole magnet. I know I got one of those innocent looking faces and all, but for some reason, the ones who think I am stupid or nieve just come right to me. More bullies and morons than is fair. One reason I learned to fight so well really."

Edora, looking flushed, comes in "So did you tell them your adventuring scores yet ?"

Esmerelda shakes her head, "Was waiting for you."

Edora nods, and looks at Lazlo, who came out of his room when the demons ran screaming from the inn and has been listening in. "We went to the guild and they gave her a full set of test. She played it clean, no specialized gifts or training. She is ranked as a level 9 warrior and a level 10 mage."

Every single person in the room goes quite and just looks at the small dangerous elf. Most of them are thinking of her in the 'holy shit' kind of way.

She squirms a little bit, she wants to say something, make up a story or the like but really she does not want to mess up her other story about elves and all. So she is quiet.

Esmerelda nods, "Given the number of bully types who go after her, not to mention all the demons she has cast out, its really not that unexpected. Just since she has been here she has cast out lots of demons, a couple nightstalkers and faced off with a few really stupid people."

Cosmic corrects her, "5 nightstalkers. 3 tried to attack us on the way back but you and Edora where talking about the day, so I just used a modified Maka blast, crossed it with a radiant spell. Worked very well. Never tried it before to tell the truth. But one spell, and 3 less nasties in the world." nodding to them while they all give her a wide eyed stare.

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Edora is staring at her hard, then she just sits down and puts her head in her hands, "We are supposed to be watching out for her and missed being ambushed. So focused on our own selves, while walking around between cities, after dark. I ... ahhhh!" she just lays herself on the floor and yells at the cieling.

Cosmic shrugs, "I did not see a point in alerting you as such things are at most an annoyance for me. My training is in removing dark influences after all. Those things are so full of the Dark that my nature makes me exceptionally lethal to them. Had they been normal night walkers, well they may have survived my initial attack. Would have still been hurt, just to be clear."

Most of these people nod in understanding. Her training, to their understanding, is to fight and destroy the Wyrm, the 'Dark' as she calls it. Decay, enthropy, and all that. So the enemy, who uses wyrm infused nightstalkers, are all very easy targets for her. Weak against her specific kind of training and abilities. Normal night walkers have a little dark in them, more than in mortals, but not to the point of these monsters. So they would be weak against her but not to the same level. They understand better why Suine summoned her specifically now.

Esmerelda is shaking her head about it. She is starting to understand a little about their new charge. Sure some things are hard for her, new abilities and all, but as she told them from the begining. She spent most of her life studing the powers of the mind. Sure she has some new gifts, but that level and kind of study is helping her now. She learns these kinds of things Very quickly because of her focused studies. 50 years of focused study. Only now she is healthy and does not have the problems she told the two of them before. Her understanding of her own nature and the nature of the gifts she has been given are making a great deal of sense to the priestess. Still to have missed an ambush because she and Edora were so focused on the wonder of all that happened in town is just a sad thing for the two of them.

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Temple of Suine, audence chamber

Someone told the elves of the adolcent elf in the churches service. As such they sent a priest of the Moonbow to collect the child.

Lady Allrisa, mid level priestess of the Moonbow, specifically. She is a hard nosed, no nonsense kind of person who thinks she knows better than most what is best for everyone. Which is really why she has not moved farther up the ranks of her own church.

"I understand you have an elf child here. I am here to collect this wayward child." she informs the high priestess.

The high priestess looks a little miffed, she has delt with this person before and knows reason is lost on her. "We do not have such a person Here. While there is an elf in the city, she is one of those with a youthful countenence, but is fully grown. She is in the service of the Gods of Life and Light and a skilled exorcist."

Looking confused, "We were told she is but 60 years old."

The High Priestess sighs, "Who told you such ?"

"The captain of the gate guards." the confused elven priestest states.

The High Priestess knows from her reports he was one of the demon possessed who escaped the city when Cosmic first arrived. "Ah, we are looking for him and his men. Seems they are all possessed by some shadow type demons. The elf cast out several of them when she arrived, but the captain and at least 10 others managed to escape the city before they could be Blessed by her. But they also tried to turn the city guard on her to. The gods protected her from that as well."

The other priestess sighs and prays on it. All she can tell is that the High Priestess believes what she is saying. She is irked but leaves it at that for now. She decides to investigate this on her own.

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That night, in her dreams Suine comes to Cosmic.

"I must say, your more impressive than I thought." she tells the human man who is in a strange bar, mixing drinks that all turn in to various forms of milkshakes when ever he hands them out.

He shrugs about it, "Most just don't have the understanding I do really. Though I am loving the gifts you unlocked for me. I do understand some of it was random and some is from things my conscious mind spent so many years trying to unlock as well."

She nods to that. "I also came to warn you. The demons have sicced the elves on you. They told them you are 60 and so the high handed ones are coming for you now. I suggest saying you are physically older than your last life as the body is fully grown and all."

Rob, the man, sighs, "So not getting any taller, darn it."

Suine chuckles over that, "No sorry your not."

"Well in truth all I have said about my age is that I have had over 50 years of specialized training. Esmerelda put out I was 60, but I think I can swing that to make it sound like she missunderstood my age and my training time. Maybe say I started training when I was 60 or the like. So I would be 110 now." he states as he passes a cucumber shake to a giant humaniod beetle like insect. (actually a character from a tv show he watched a while back - Beetle-Borgs)

She nods, that makes a good amount of sense to her as she makes a little gesture, "There, I fixed it, should they check for your phyical age, that is what they will find."

"Thank you my lady. I feel it will be helpful in the long run to." she nods to that.