[h2]Tyaethe[/h2]

"I'll stay here. If someone finds the shard, it [i]should[/i] be obvious, but I can confirm anyway..." Tyaethe said, trailing off. Well, she wasn't bizarrely gifted or anything, but she [i]was[/i] an ordained priest, and simple entreaties like 'is this a piece of manifest evil' tended to get something of a response, even if it was a muted one. Beside which, these were [i]meant[/i] to be under the guard of the church in the first place, so it was worrying that it had gotten out... and it also meant that, of everyone here, [i]she[/i] was the one best suited to taking it back. And not for the usual obvious reason of being hard to kill, either!

Not that this left her all that much to do in the interim, so her attention turned to Alette's crew. Hm, there wasn't all that much she could say about most of them, but [i]that[/i] one...

The paladin's advance on Abigail was anything but casual, standing between her and the duo she was accompanying with her arms folded and sword trailing behind her as a very sharp tripping hazard, and one eye raised in curiosity. 

"What [i]are[/i] you? No pulse. You're not even [i]breathing[/i]. I bet if I touched you, you'd feel... well, pretty warm, today, but cold if it was winter," the vampire stated, head tilted, "But if you're some necromancer's puppet, then they would have to be watching to direct things. Some sort of golem?"