The 2 women fell silent for a second. It was like they wanted a second to assume issues over.

Then Lucy appeared as much as the sky. “Are you simply going to go away her flying round up there?”

I had virtually forgotten about Enna whereas I used to be explaining the scenario.

“Ah, no I ought to name her down.” I hesitated for a second.

Ameri smiled. “Don’t fear, we gained’t hurt her.”

“Thanks.”

I took a step again and began waving to Enna. “It’s alright, you possibly can come down.” I shouted.

Enna will need to have heard me, as a result of she started descending with every circle, she made overhead.

The remainder of our group had stored their distance and left me to make the reasons to the 2 women. In that point, that they had helped Rosa transfer the carriage out of the way in which into the woods and unloaded most of our gear.

Seeing that issues had calmed down, Serin and Aetherin approached the three of us.

As they drew close to, Enna touched down on the bottom simply in entrance of us.

Serin waved to Enna after which turned to me. “Have you ever defined all the pieces now?”

I shrugged. “Nicely virtually…”

“You imply there’s extra?” Requested Ameri.

I nodded. “Only one thing more…” I turned to Aetherin. “You’ve already met, however there’s something you don’t learn about her.”

Ameri laughed. “Don’t inform me, she’s a demon too?” She requested in a barely sarcastic tone.

“Sure, she is.”

“What? However she seems human!”

“She does… She’s a vampire.”

Each Ameri and Lucy took a step again. The priority was written over their faces.

Seeing this Aetherin slowly stepped ahead with each palms open to indicate her intent. “Don’t fear, no hurt will come to both of you from me. I don’t consider Theo wouldn’t forgive me if I harmed a human with out good motive, and I wouldn’t need that.”

Lucy didn’t look satisfied. “However you drink blood, human blood.”

“Oh, I do. I’ve drank many a human dry…” She laughed. “I’m not going to drink your blood, not until you provided, and I positively wouldn’t take sufficient to hurt you.”

This unsurprisingly didn’t settle the pair down.

I made a decision to step in. “It’s okay, she isn’t going to harm anybody. When she must drink blood, she has me.”

Lucy checked out me, her jaw was virtually hanging down. “You give her your blood, doesn’t that fear you?”

“Not likely. I do know she is going to solely take what she wants.”

Serin coughed. “It isn’t solely Theo that has finished or would achieve this. We’ve all provided our blood when Aetherin wanted it. She is considered one of us.”

The pair appeared stunned to listen to this from Serin too, however they nonetheless appeared a bit awkward in entrance of Aetherin. I knew solely someday round her, and the opposite women would put them full at relaxation.

Enna had joined us whereas we had been discussing Aetherin, however Lucy and Ameri appeared a lot much less involved about her than they did Aetherin.

Serin appeared over to the remainder of our celebration a small manner off. She rubbed her palms collectively. “We should always spherical everybody up and head to the camp. Might you present us the way in which Enna?”

Enna nodded. “In fact.”

“Nice.” Serin turned again to the remainder the celebration. “Come on, we’re making for the camp.”

After her name everybody began heading in the direction of us.

We waited till we have been all collectively after which Enna started to stroll us into the forest.

As we adopted, Lucy walked alongside me. “So, we’ll meet the opposite harpies on the camp?”

“We are going to, they went on forward earlier than us.”

“They usually’re all secure for us to be round?”

“They’re, I promise. They’ve saved all our lives and I belief them with mine.”

“Okay…”

It was solely a brief manner into the wooden earlier than we reached the clearing the place the harpies had determined to arrange camp. They have been all sat round in a circle ready for us, however as they noticed us arrive, they obtained to their toes.

Ceraphine walked over to satisfy us. “Theo! Am I glad to see you once more.”

I laughed. “I’m glad to see you too. It has solely been half a day although.”

“I do know, however I nonetheless missed you.” She appeared over our group and seen the 2 new faces. “We’ve gained extra members?”

“Sure…” I stepped a bit to the aspect so she might see the pair and gestured in the direction of them. “That is Lucy and Ameri. They’re a bit cautious of demonkind, it’s their first time interacting with any of you want this.”

“I perceive how they really feel.”

It was the identical for the harpies, that they had solely fought towards people prior to now.

Ceraphine slowly stepped ahead and provided her hand. “I’m Ceraphine… Uh so that is most likely a bit troublesome for all of us, however when you’re a good friend of Theo’s, I want to get alongside.”

Lucy took in deep breath after which took her hand. “I’m lucy.” She turned to Ameri.

Ameri paused for a second, however ultimately adopted go well with and took Ceraphine’s hand. “And I’m Ameri… It’s err good to satisfy you.”

“You too.” Ceraphine turned to me. “Are you going to affix us? Everybody was ready so that you can get right here.”

“Thanks, I’ll shortly. I want to assist the others arrange camp first. I can’t simply slack off whereas the others do the work, sorry.”

She appeared disenchanted. “Actually?”

I laughed. “Sure… I’ll get in hassle if I don’t assist.”

“What about us?”

“I don’t assume anybody would complain, however I’m certain they might be grateful when you provided a hand.”

“I’ll go and spherical up the remainder of the women.” Ceraphine span round and jogged in the direction of the remainder of the harpies.

Lucy and Ameri each appeared to have relaxed a bit. Neither woman appeared to be fairly as on edge as that they had been solely minutes earlier than.

Lucy turned to me. “She appeared similar to a standard woman!”

I nodded. “So far as I can inform, she is. Nicely, you recognize other than being a demon.”

“They aren’t what I anticipated in any respect.”

“I understand how you’re feeling…” I glanced throughout the clearing to the place the remainder of the celebration have been unloading our gear. “I had higher go and assist, we don’t have a lot daylight left.”

Ameri turned to Lucy. “We should always set our tent too earlier than it will get darkish.”

The three of us made our technique to remainder of the group.

It was time to start what was now fairly the effectively worn routine and arrange the camp for the night time.

Ceraphine made good on her phrase and roped the remainder of the harpy women in organising the camp. With the additional numbers we quickly had all the pieces arrange and a big hearth lit within the centre of the clearing.

With the camp made our now quite giant group assembled across the hearth because the night meal cooked away.

As I took my seat on the hearth’s edge, I used to be joined by Lucy and Ameri. The pair took a seat both aspect of me. They each appeared eager to speak with me and I used to be glad of the chance to get to know the pair a bit higher.

I took the possibility. “Why have you ever each determined to journey Dunshelm? Absolutely you could have heard concerning the hassle for the time being?”

Lucy nodded. “We’ve heard a bit, not that we actually know what to consider… However we’ve needed to go again for some time, when the guild grasp requested us, it appeared like the proper alternative.”

“You’ve been to Dunshelm earlier than?”

Each Lucy and Ameri laughed.

Ameri put her hand on my shoulder. “You heroes actually aren’t from our world. You may’t have spent a lot time right here in any other case you’ll’ve seen!”

“I’m sorry, I don’t perceive.”

“Our accents… We each grew up in Dunshelm.”

“I couldn’t inform in any respect!”

“Nicely, they’ve been misplaced a bit after years of travelling round and residing in Silthorn. You see Lucy and I each joined the guild as quickly as we have been sufficiently old. We shaped a celebration with a couple of of our mates and set out in the hunt for journey and to see the world.”

Lucy had been staring on the hearth turned to Ameri. “But in some way we discovered ourselves in that lifeless finish city Silthorn with 4 mates lower than we set out with…”

“Have they already returned forward of you?”

Ameri shook her head. “They’re all lifeless.”

I fell silent for a second. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have requested…”

Lucy waved her palms. “It’s okay, all of them knew it was harmful earlier than we left. Not that we needed to lose any of them… You could realise already simply how precarious being an journey is?”

“I do.”

I mentioned that and whereas I did, not like them I had spent virtually all of my time within the care of excessive rating adventurers. I used to be buffered from a variety of hurt, even when we had been in lots of harmful conditions already.