[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
As soon as her sacrifice-esque action was done, Asteria felt a sudden presence. The closest reference to it was that water spirit in the sword she’d met way back in the dungeon. Narrowing her eyes, she dropped the coin from her mouth to her left palm, clutching it closely while looking around warily. [color=F0E68C]“Hello?”[/color] she murmured the question. She used Mana Sense to try and get a feel for the disturbance. [color=F0E68C]“Are you a spirit? Were you that being who was pleased by me offering part of the bug meat? Any connection to the coin?”[/color] she wondered aloud, whispering. She was mostly attempting to communicate with whatever was there, just to see if what she felt was some sort of a sentient spiritual being or not. She cocked her head to the side, focusing intently on her sense of touch.
 
[color=F0E68C]“You know…If you like blood so much…there are some bandits outside this place, up to no good for sure,”[/color] actually, from what Ed had told her, she wasn’t sure if they were about to ransack the barrow if they had some other purpose. The fact that they were a danger was indisputable, so the details probably didn’t matter that much. [color=F0E68C]“They’re bothering us too, but they outnumber us, some have armour, and they may be more skilled too…But I think at least one of them is a human,”[/color] she confided in a hushed, somewhat sweetly beseeching tone. Ed had referred to them as ‘armoured dudes’ so that last bit was likely true. [color=F0E68C]“And if we had your help dealing with them…well, in exchange we can bring the corpses inside and you could have all that tasty fresh blood, hmm?”[/color]

Asteria didn’t honestly think something like what she was doing could get any sort of reaction, but then again, back when she had been speaking with the water spirit, that being had spoken to her and had wanted her mana…Though, as she still clearly remembered, dealing with it hadn’t been possible. Maybe this would be different. Or maybe nothing would happen. She was fine with either outcome. If mother rat, Ed, and herself had to deal with the situation themselves, they would. If there was actually some mysterious protective force in the barrow that had interest in keeping potentially disturbing presences aside, then perhaps it would offer a helpful push for them to deal with the bandits.

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Shifts coin to paw.
Addresses the presence.
Uses Mana Sense II.
Uses Beast Senses III: Touch.
Attempts dealing with what she supposes might be a spirit.
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