"I'm sorry Hunter, I feel a bit better now." Marigold said with a shaky but determined voice. "Thank you," she said as she leaned to press a small kiss on his snout. She looked at Echo and Gaia, "I still have a lot to learn I'm afraid, I am not ready for this job yet," she said with a sigh. Perhaps they made a mistake with picking her, after all what could a weak human do compared to them?

She looked at her dress, which wasn't too torn or dirty well... at least not as much as she had feared. "I rather go home Hunter, father expects me home with the ingredients for the meal I need prepare." Marigold jolted up. "Is the one that helped me all right? is the beast not following us?" she asked Gaia worriedly. Not that she really wanted Hunter to charge off to defeat whatever that was but if the threat wouldn't be eliminated how could she go back to the forest and forage when needed?

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Demon blood, Harpy dander and moon water, she repeated it in her mind a few times. "Need a hand?" Hazel asked. She knew some people weren't exactly too eager to cut themselves, even for a good cause. Luckily, Hazel had no problems cutting herself, or others, for a little bit of blood if needed. 

"So it could potentially mean that the witch is still alive or is it just a weirdly persistent curse?" there could be few reasons why a curse would linger after death. One would be with the help of a demon, another with an enchanted item hidden somewhere. There were a few more but those came to Hazel's mind.